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.