I read Max Weber's essay and it was apparently a thesis on how Protestantism, mainly Calvinism, created the modern capitalist order.
Found archived reply I made on /his/ on the subject.
To quote Weber he said that Catholics prefer the sort of training that a humanistic gymnasium affords i.e. muh boxing, muh sports.
He said Catholics are more inclined to work in a more "traditionalist" manner as he described, laboring solely to satisfy one's needs whereas according to him the capitalist ethic demands the making of profit for the sake of making profit.
Perhaps this is what's behind the habit of living by paycheck to paycheck and may be influenced by religious ideals of humility.
Catholics were also said to have a greater tendency to become master craftsmen in single trades while Protestants appear to prefer quantity over quality with their specialties. This might explain the lack of quality in some Protestant trades when compared to the same when done by Catholics with things like cuisine and arts to give an example.
So overall what could deduced from all this is that a greater cumbersomeness by Catholics might permit them to produce things of higher quality although inefficiently while the the practical essence of Protestants allows them to manufacture more but at potentially lesser qualities like with Chinese production.
Now going back to the current post here's one bit from the actual text.
Christian asceticism, at first fleeing from the world into solitude, had already ruled the world which it had renounced from the monastery and through the Church. But it had, on the whole, left the naturally spontaneous character of daily life in the world untouched. Now it strode into the market-place of life, slammed the door of the monastery behind it, and undertook to penetrate just that daily routine of life with its methodicalness, to fashion it into a life in the world, but neither of nor for this world.
Another thing which he talks about is how Protestants would use how well one is doing in life as a way to analyze one's state of grace. Perhaps I did not understand it exactly as it was intended but it seems to me that this might mean that some people would because of this try their most to exhibit such signs.
Also the freeing up of people from feast cycles made them devote more time to working and Protestantism is said to have spread among a literate middle class bourgeoisie.