Remember when you said credit scores must have existed before the 1900s bc you heard credit mentioned in a Hamilton song? Now I’m still seeing your dumbass comments on every post and every time I think of that first
I don't remember that specific comment, but I can almost guarantee that's not what I said
It's more likely that I said that the concept of credit has existed for a very long time and people had ways of evaluating what they perceived as someone's worthiness to be extended credit before the modern credit score system existed. Which is just… True? There are credit agency records going back well into the 19th century, I specifically recall reading about them in Wendy Gamber's amazing book "the female economy" as a way to trace the economic lives of millinery and dressmaking shops in the late 1800s, and the concept of credit and people trying to investigate whether they wanted to extend someone credit is older still 
Now, have I said incorrect things about history before I learned better? Absolutely. I work in this field but that doesn't mean that I'm perfect; we all do the best we can with the information we have and sometimes we learn new information. And hey, if I said something stupid about credit scores, I will freely own up to having said something stupid about credit scores. But I also find it unlikely that I would use Hamilton as a source when I've been bitching and moaning about the historical liberties taken by Hamilton almost since I first saw it
(I suspect, if I even said this at all, it was intended to be something like "I would think the general public would be aware that the concept of credit existed before 1900 because it's mentioned in Hamilton")
For once, I can feel reasonably sure that what I said is being taken out of context precisely because I'm so annoying about history. Fun!
