You ever think about the fact that A Christmas Carol was doing the same Nightmare Before Christmas shtick almost 200 years earlier A Halloween-y spoopy story for the sake of teaching "the true meaning of Christmas" via the macabre
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Dickens was attacking a specific mindset in 19th-century Britain (one that's still with us today), the whole Protestant work ethic idea that saving money = virtue and the wisest, smartest, best people are "millionaires next door" who have millions in the bank they don't touch
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The whole irony that if Scrooge were a "worse" person he'd be a better person If he just blew that whole fortune on booze and sex and big dinners and shit Then people would be getting paid for those things, and they'd be able to pay their rent and buy groceries
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Yeah, it's significant. He's a miser, not a robber baron. He's not even a factory owner or something, he's an accountant with an overworked assistant, but his entire business is counting money.
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