He was middle class but expected to spend money he didn't have
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I think most popular media portrays Scrooge as being at least better off than the people around him, but it can be difficult to figure his real wealth since the character is also supposed to live quite frugally.
He's portrayed as a typical libshit that expects the government or charities to help the poor and needy, so he doesn't need to do anything personally. I think in the Muppet Christmas Carol he says "Isn't that what my taxes pay for?!"
Also it's funny how these guys always say "the rich" (muh millionaires and billionaires), as if the rich don't already give money to charity, or as if this apparent poverty-stricken twitter user would share any more.
They simply have no concept of finite resources. If you tell them that confiscating all of the money from rich people won't be enough to pay for their imagined utopia their brains shut down and they don't understand. I've seen it happen.
The same way that only 50% of the population actually pays taxes, yet they cry about how unfair it is when tax cuts benefits only tax payers.
They hate "the rich," the "landlords," the "billionaires," the "capitalists" and the "1%" but you can never call them that one other thing...
I remember him being very well dressed in the Muppets version, too. At least rather well off but super miserable. I should rewatch that movie, it's been years.