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pseydtonne · 3471 days ago · link · · parent · post: Poor kids who do everything right don’t do better than rich kids who do everything wrong
Don't forget that Hamilton also ran the Bank of New York, which made the first loan to the US government. He knew banking -- because money is a great buffer against being dismissed as an illegitimate. For those of you not coming out of the 20th Century: it used to be embarrassing (on the verge of public ostracism) if your parents were not married when you were born. Hamilton's dad was a Scottish beachcomber in the West Indies. A perpetual state of debt guaranteed... something. Hamilton had the answers. Too bad the question was "how can we wind up the robber baron nation?" Aaron Burr killed him. Sounds noble, but Burr ran what is now Chase Morgan (the Chase side of it).