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I saw some Scrooge McDuck cartoons from the 60s that had him talk about money in a realistic way. Saying that a billion dollars is an unfathomable number, and how money must be constantly circulating otherwise problems will happen.
Even a duck tales cartoon had Scrooge lose his entire fortune so he decided to start from scratch again... And then realized that the world he was able to start his fortune in is no longer there and he cannot succeed again even if he did exactly what he did prior.
On top of that, the existence of his Lucky Dime and how his luck changes dramatically if he loses it is also an acknowledgement of the importance of luck.
That is because Scrooge wasn't written bij actual rich people. So of course he knows nuance.
Scrooge is, if you want to be really, really picky about it, a racist stereotype. Why is Scrooge even Scottish? Because the Scots have long been stereotyped as stingy and thrifty and always looking for a cheaper option or deal. If you watch older media you will inevitably run into that stereotype. The first proto-Scrooge was in a 1943 Donald Duck cartoon about making sure you had enough money to pay your taxes for the war effort. Basically it was a fight between the 'spendthrift' and the 'thrift' to either blow his cash away or use it responsibly. He was the thrift in that film.
Also canonically, Scrooge is dead. He's been dead since the 1960s. He lived to the age of 100, born in the 1860s and died in the 1960s.