It is also inconceivable to conceive of a Puritan that wanted somebody else to pay for everything for him; my, how we have fallen...
A lot of the fall could be due to the fact that as a society ages, it accumulates a lot of deadweight that’s almost impossible to get rid of.
But coming here to the new world, the Puritans could start fresh, and had to be self-reliant, and that legacy lasted a surprisingly long time.