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“Wall street can’t comprehend easy moral lessons most young children can grasp”

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This article is the best argument i’ve ever seen for why humanities are so important in education. Apparently you can just submit what is essentially a half assed book report with no reading comprehension or sources or basis whatsoever to certain news journals and call it a day.

Like Scrooge is pretty immoral and that’s kind of the whole point of the book. So much so that ghost visit him about it. That’s the plot. This is, again, an easy story that children can grasp via Muppets.

Anyone who sees Scrooge’s employee freezing all day in an office/going home to a hungry family he can’t support and thinks “Man, that Scrooge is a good and smart businessman” needs their own round of ghostly visitors.

Scrooge: *parrots common pro-business arguments specifically so the novel can refute them*

This fuckin guy who didn’t read past the first chapter: Well that seems perfectly sound!

And there’s a difference between Ebenezer Scrooge and the wealth hoarders of today, which is that his miserly behavior stems from the trauma of childhood privation, and from the fact that he really did work very hard to survive for many years early in life, and he lives in a kind of self-imposed quazipoverty because he’s so terrified of ever being poor again.  It’s vastly different from real poverty, because he never actually has to go without food or heat or shelter, and none of this remotely justifies his behavior at all, but it’s a far cry from men who were born to wealth, inherited wealth, and continue to gain wealth in huge amounts daily without having to do a thing, who live a kind of alien decadence where they can eat gold leaf black truffles and could literally end all homelessness and still afford them, but choose not to because they have no concept whatsoever of not knowing whether you’ll eat tomorrow or having a sick child and being unable to afford a doctor, and they just don’t care.