Anyway I embrace the edgelord version of the attack on Scrooge just as they're taking an edgelord defense of it Even ignoring the fact that he's an asshole with no friends, the "good things" about Scrooge are bad things A high household savings rate is a negative moral failing
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Scrooge would be a better person if he wasted every penny he earned on booze and drugs and collectible figurines or whatever and he died with his books in the red He'd be paying people's wages and enabling them to pay other people's wages if he did so
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Scrooge's sympathetic reason for his greed isn't the deadly sin of gluttony, which everyone in that era would be happy to unanimously condemn His avarice is born of simple fear of poverty Which is very understandable, but the worst sins are driven by such fears
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Money is only a way of keeping score, after all What does "I want to get and stay rich so I need never fear being poor" actually mean It means "I want to always have more power than the people around me, to make them work for me so they can't make me work for them"
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And yeah, that's evil It's a small, subtle evil compared to if he wanted to use his wealth to sexually exploit his workers or something But it's still evil "It's more important for me to know I'll always have a roof over my head than to worry about other people's"
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"In fact it's of positive benefit to me that they live in fear so I live in security Other people will be desperate for work because they don't know where their next meal is coming from, and that means I can always order a meal at a cheap price"
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It doesn't sound like sin but it's THE great sin, from which all the miseries of our current age originate
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I do however feel Bah Humbug is a completely valid worldview.
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Dickens' worldview mixes up Scrooge's antisocial nature and his selfish economic/political views so they're all one thing, and while he has a point I agree that people who want to be left alone on Christmas are valid
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That’s why I find the late Terry Pratchett (today) to be the better “real” moralist. (“Moralist meant as a compliment) He will not end at analysing/bemoaning a drama, but will dare offer a solution, often not grounded solely in personal epiphany, but rooted in societal *change*
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Monstrous Regiment ends not in bemoaning the fate of crossdressing woman passing as soldiers, but ends in a court-martial takedown of the entire patriarchy.
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