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- Jan 6, 2019
Scrooge was so frightened by the three spirits that has has a complete change of heart and becomes a much better man.You know, I did think it was about time that we got a modern retelling of A Christmas Carol. Only our Ebenezer Scrooge is a heartless CEO of an equally heartless insurance corp.
And the three ghosts are replaced by three bullets.
At least it's happening near Christmas, so close enough.
Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world. Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms. His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.
He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!
Ironically, Bob Cratchett earns 15 bob a week, 39 pounds a year which is probably, after inflation, not far off the minimum wage even now.
I very much doubt the C suites of the world are having a come to Jesus moment just now. They simply do not care