Ebenezer Scrooge [Phot by Loren Javier] Ebenezer Scrooge is the protagonist of Charles Dickens’s novella, A Christmas Carol . A bitter childhood has turned Scrooge into a mean and selfish person. He is quite like some of our corporate bigwigs whose greed is as endless as selfishness is insensitive. He is a corporate honcho of the time, in fact. His concern is only profit. Profit before everything else. People don’t matter. It doesn’t matter whether his staff are starving as long as his business rakes in profits for himself. One Christmas transforms Scrooge, however. He is blessed with a vision into his own heart and into the heart of the reality around him. The vision teaches him that there are many other things that should come before profits. Mankind is your real business, as one of the characters tells him. Compassion, forbearance, and benevolence are your real business. A miracle follows the vision. Scrooge is transformed. He decides to help the deserving people. He sheds h
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