Based on this passage, what can you infer that the British elite were like at the time, and what did Dickens want his readers to do?

A Christmas Carol - Excerpt from Stave I

Excerpt Starting from "Scrooge fell upon his knees..."

Excerpt Ending at "and weary journeys lie before me"

Charles Dickens wrote this novella in installments, publishing one section at a time in a magazine read by London's rich and educated readers of 1843.