The 1843 years when Dickens wrote the novel was the era of British industrialization. Many of Dickens' novels (such as A Tale of Two Cities) are expressions calling for the "welfare system", and the United Kingdom has a complete history of the development of the welfare system, from the old and new Poor Laws to the Beverly Report. It is to ensure the basic living needs of the lowest group step by step, and to live with dignity.
One aspect of the "welfare system" is "robbing the rich to help the poor", and the wealth that a miser like Ebenezer Scrooge can't take away after death is not used to help the poor in this world? Dickens's novels hope to foster a culture of welfare, so why not do it generously for "General Well"?
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