What point of view does Dickens indirectly suggest in the following sentence from the passage?
So, they established the rule, that all poor people should have the alternative (for they
would compel nobody, not they) of being starved by a gradual process in the house, or
by a quick one out of it.
Those who run the workhouse are too weak to compel the poor to do what is in their own
interest.
Those who run the workhouse are committed to an ideal of freedom.
Those who run the workhouse present the poor with the best alternative possible under the
circumstances
Those who run the workhouse contribute to a situation in which the poor have no good
alternatives,