Ebenezer Scrooge Was Right About Christmas—Just Not Yours
In Dickens’ time, Scrooge hated Christmas for its community and cheer. Today, he’d love it for its corporate greed and obsession with material goods. Welcome to the capitalist holiday of his dreams.
In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is famously a miserly villain who learns to embrace the true spirit of Christmas: community, generosity, and goodwill. But here’s the twist: Scrooge didn’t hate Christmas because he was cold-hearted—he hated it because it was about people, not profits. Back in Victorian England, Christmas wasn’t ye…
