[squarebarb]

He's right. Scrooge was not bad because he was rich but because he refused to share, in a charitable way, his wealth with the needy.

Remember there was no social net, and the rich were expected to help those in need. That's why Scrooge is lambasted.

Getting rich is lauded in Dickens. Look at Dombey and Son, and many others.

Also, poverty is almost always the result of bad behavior, I believe, although some alert reader may correct me. In The Old Curiosity Shop, the old Grandfather has a gambling addiction.

The rich are hauled over the coals in his books for not being charitable.

[massgopguy]

Half of the funerals in the London of the 1840s were for children under the age of ten. These children were sacrificed for the Industrial Revolution. Juxtapose this to Abortion's contribution to the DotCom boom.