[Irene Adler]

" It's completely apparent in A Christmas Carol. One of Scrooge's many faults is just being rich, and wanting to make something of himself as a young man is shadowed as something bad in the book."

No, it's Scrooge's hard-heartedness toward others that Dickens objects to (though he also takes pains to show how Scrooge's personality was formed through painful incidents in his past, by using flashbacks). Dickens had nothing against working hard or gaining prosperity. He just wanted people to care about others.

[the invisib1e hand]

well said.