What were the business men talking about in a chritmsas carol?
This is in two areas. initially in stave 1The First time men are
talk of business is when the two business gentlemen arrive at
Scrooges office seeking a charitable donation to help feed the poor
and offer them some comfort that Christmas to which Scrooge
famously asks "are there no prisons, are there no work houses and
the poverty laws and the treadmill are they still in use?". Then
Marley is telling Scrooge that "mankind" , Marley goes on to say of
his enternal punishement that "The common welfare was my business;
charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my
business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the
comprehensive ocean of my business". This is prompting Scrooge to
reconsider his own life and his priorites.