Scrooge obeying the law - Uncle Scrooge/Law-Abiding

[jeanmarcbano]

At the moment of the creation of Scrooge in the time there was in America a lot of movies relating the lives of rich people (the most famous is certainly Citizen Kane, i think at this scene in the excellent story 'The trail of the Unicorn' where we see at the beginning his big mansion isolated in the country like a second Xanadu), but i don't think Scrooge is necessary an american character (i thought for a long time that he was an european and particularly an italian creation!); the world of Scrooge seems to me a world of the past, nowadays the money has become an abstract thing, in the world of Scrooge this is still a concrete thing and materialized by coins which inhabits in big quantity his huge bin; in France thirty years ago, the salaries were still paid in cash, then, the banks were developped on a larger scale, and now the salary is a cheque or a bank transfert, that is no longer concrete money, this is electronic money, this is an abstract thing; in the world of Scrooge the wealth is still a concrete thing materialized by the coins, and that is a fantasy of the past; he doesn't spend his fortune in an extravagant way, for him money is just a question of idolatry, and maybe this is why there isn't some social protest against him; Duckburg is a quiet place, this is not a social world, politic has nothing to do with it (except for some old italian stories which critics the totalitarism (Picsou annexé par la Ruinitanie Mickey Parade 899 bis -year 1969-); the actions of Scrooge, Donald and the kids, Gyro and so forth...are often private, people of Duckburg don't pay a great attention about that, except for when these actions have some exterior repercussions on the population (Picsou et la publicité tapageuse -i don't remember what mickey parade); in the overall picture i think in the most part of the stories, Scrooge has good public relations with the authorities (even if sometimes in the Barks and the italian stories some judgments for mayhem costs him a lot of money); in Duckburg, i think the danger is not a social or politic protest, even in the old italian stories, i think the danger comes from an other place.
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