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Are you suggesting there is literally nothing productive left for people to do? I don't think the idea that there is work to do is distinctly protestant. I see your point though that "putting in time" seems like a western thing. Interesting.
In part, I regarded writing the books as an obligation of sorts. I very much love books myself, and came to the conclusion that someone with my love for books should "pay it forward" by writing one. I sort of got "roped into" the second one.
It was time consuming, and I didn't enjoy it very much. The first book required that I work 6 evenings a week for nine months. The second one took over a year. Neither one of them was even my idea; I was asked to do them by someone else.