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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Dec 2020

      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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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Dec 2020

      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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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Dec 2020

      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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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Dec 2020

      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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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Dec 2020

      "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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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Dec 2020

      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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    7. Unknowable Entiby‏ @UnknownEnby 24 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      Ultimately, he didn't hate poverty, he loved that it existed. He just didn't want to be there himself. Poverty as moral failing, poverty as punishment for sin. And if that's true, then wealth is the opposite. Wealth is a sign of moral health, of reward for good deeds.

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    8. Unknowable Entiby‏ @UnknownEnby 24 Dec 2020
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      And then conservatives look at Dickens and think "Aha, being wealthy isn't bad, so the real sin of Scrooge is that he was working on Christmas" and turn it into the Kranks

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Dec 2020
      Replying to @UnknownEnby

      The whole thing about the Kranks is they turn it into a binary choice between spending thousands of dollars on the stupid neighborhood Christmas decorating contest or spending the money on themselves for a cruise The question of giving the money to charity never comes up

      1 reply 1 retweet 19 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @UnknownEnby

      I mean, in a perverse way I appreciate that, because if you put it like that it'd be obvious what the "true spirit of Christmas" was, which is why they avoid it

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @UnknownEnby

      My "Bah humbug" side says even if Luther Krank wants to spend the money completely selfishly that's more valid than having to participate in this stupid bougie suburban ritual that's really just a celebration of wealth without actually enjoying it

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        2. Unknowable Entiby‏ @UnknownEnby 24 Dec 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          Yep, wealth and poverty are never discussed. It hollows out the core and just gets left with "celebrating Christmas is good and mandatory". Because all that stuff about money is too challenging.

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        3. Jacob Salas‏ @js_jrod 24 Dec 2020
          Replying to @UnknownEnby @arthur_affect

          Not to mention the movie's logic that allows for the avoidance of having to deal with church-focused and non-Christian families being things in that suburb

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        1. Giant Quarantined Ghost‏ @TheRealCapnAndy 24 Dec 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @UnknownEnby

          IIRC, Christmas with the kranks was widely panned because that was the prevailing view

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