Scrooge was exceptionally mean when two men came over to Scrooge’s office to ask for money for people who are in need during the Christmas season. He refused to give money by saying, “If they would rather die, “said Scrooge, ‘they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.” This quote means to me that he wouldn’t care about how the poor are living and if they die it wouldn’t be a matter to him because of his thoughts about the population and in the book it means that he would rather see the poor people die instead of helping them, and by dying, they would be doing a service to the world by decreasing the city
