 What I ended up calling the Scrooge paradox has got nothing to do with money, but it's got to do with belief and personal experience. Because at the beginning of the story, Scrooge meets the ghost of his former partner, who comes back to essentially warn him that these spirits, you know, the three spirits of Christmas are going to come to him and show him what's what in the world. And at the beginning of the story, Scrooge