It's a ghost story Especially as a stage play, it gets all its juice from the Ghosts being scary The more you drain that energy from it and make the Ghosts friendly the less there's any point to the story
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Bitcoin freaks have filled the Internet with smug references to having "low time preference" and the message of the Three Ghosts in A Christmas Carol is very much one defending "high time preference"
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Buy the thing on your list *today*, *right now* -- for yourself or for another -- because tomorrow it might not be there, or you, or them
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Yeah, though I think somewhat as an extension rather than an allegory? It's pretty intensely personalized in the text, and focused on relationships as much as the public good.
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But it also focuses on Scrooge’s position as an agent of the public good. The privatization of public goods (like credit) was an issue in that time which was hotly contested. I think Dickens was trying to stealth this stuff to his middle class readership.
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The ability to write a world-wide holiday sensation that people identify with 200 years later but delivers this message on your dome like a ton of bricks puts Dickens in the first rank of authors imo.
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