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    Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Dec 2020

    Arthur Chu Retweeted Alexandra Erin

    BTW if you want to know exactly how bad income inequality was in Victorian London, Bob Cratchit's "15 bob a week" is about as much purchasing power as $75 a week today, or $4,000 a year When Scrooge bitches about having to pay Bob for his day off he's bitching about $15https://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1342563628214607879 …

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    Alexandra Erin @AlexandraErin
    We can get an idea of Scrooge's business sense and how his business dealings impact the working class in how he treats his sole employee: paying him a starvation wage.
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      2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Dec 2020

        You can argue about how accurate this is - his salary, though low, was considered within the "normal range" for the time period - but people back then were objectively poor The Cratchit household only functions because their three oldest kids all also have jobs

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      3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Dec 2020

        And one proposal for what exactly Tiny Tim's disease is is rickets, which was very common among children in that era and is a form of vitamin D deficiency I.e. he's sick because he never gets the chance to go outside and he (and his mom when breastfeeding) has a very poor diet

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      4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Dec 2020

        The "medical treatment" he needs but can't afford could be as simple as a spoonful of cod liver oil every day

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      2. Avram Grumer  👓‏ @avram 25 Dec 2020
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        Scrooge figures Bob is worth 1 bob, tautologically.

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      3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Dec 2020
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        This joke is literally in the book, when we find out Bob Cratchit's name the narrator goes on about how "Bob barely gets 15 of his own Christian name every week"

        0 replies 0 retweets 18 likes
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      1. Kevin J. Miller‏ @KevinJMiller5 25 Dec 2020
        Replying to @arthur_affect @Myrmecos

        Beginning-of-the-story Scrooge now (sigh) defended by New York Times Editorial.

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      1. joqatana‏ @joqatana 25 Dec 2020
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        That’s more than food stamps gives me.

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