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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Replying to @arthur_affect
Scrooge figures Bob is worth 1 bob, tautologically.
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Replying to @avram
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"
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