Ebeneezer Scrooge - the new right-wing prophet

[Dimentio]

Fail (http://mises.org/article.aspx?Id=110&month=3&title=Scrooge+Defended&Id=3)

Well, what to say. I think this article shows a lot what a reprehensible set of values right-wing libertarianism takes with itself.

[Catbus]

So let's look without preconceptions at Scrooge's allegedly underpaid clerk, Bob Cratchit. The fact is, if Cratchit's skills were worth more to anyone than the fifteen shillings Scrooge pays him weekly, there would be someone glad to offer it to him. Since no one has, and since Cratchit's profit-maximizing boss is hardly a man to pay for nothing, Cratchit must be worth exactly his present wages.

I had a hard time going on after that.