Exactly. It's supposed to be laudable. Yes, I suppose it says "by working a lot harder", but you could argue that that just means... you know, he worked hard. Which he did. Honestly, in general I question the idea that saying "hard work" is bad, which I've seen in general among some. Hard work is good. Judging someone isn't good, assuming that one person's hard work will have the same exact results as another person's hard work isn't right, but there's nothing wrong with celebrating hard work.
Yes - and the reality is, most people who escape poverty do it by being hard-working - and yet many hard-working people don't escape poverty. I don't think the musical is denying the deserving people get stuck in poverty by celebrating Alexander's escape.
It's a very patriotic musical - but it's a patriotism that welcomes people excluded by Donald "Make America great again" trump.
I've also heard that apparently the musical makes Hamilton out to be more Abolitionist than he really was, as Phillip Schuyler was involved in the slave trade, and Hamilton supported it, but I'm not sure.
I don't know enough about he real Hamilton to say - but in the musical, it seems like he opposed slavery, but didn't do much about it. The most he seems to do with it is use it as a point of bitchery against Thomas Jefferson. At the end though, in passing: one of the things Eliza (Phillip Schuyler's daughter, Alexander Hamilton's wife) does after her husband's death is speak out against slavery. Again, I don't know the historical accuracy, but it seems an unlikely thing for Miranda to have invented.
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Yes - and the reality is, most people who escape poverty do it by being hard-working - and yet many hard-working people don't escape poverty. I don't think the musical is denying the deserving people get stuck in poverty by celebrating Alexander's escape.
It's a very patriotic musical - but it's a patriotism that welcomes people excluded by Donald "Make America great again" trump.
I've also heard that apparently the musical makes Hamilton out to be more Abolitionist than he really was, as Phillip Schuyler was involved in the slave trade, and Hamilton supported it, but I'm not sure.
I don't know enough about he real Hamilton to say - but in the musical, it seems like he opposed slavery, but didn't do much about it. The most he seems to do with it is use it as a point of bitchery against Thomas Jefferson. At the end though, in passing: one of the things Eliza (Phillip Schuyler's daughter, Alexander Hamilton's wife) does after her husband's death is speak out against slavery. Again, I don't know the historical accuracy, but it seems an unlikely thing for Miranda to have invented.