Edison was a patent-thief and anything attributed to his name should have an asterisk next to it. He gets credited with the lightbulb, but nobody talks about how he electrocuted dogs with Tesla’s alternating current to try to sway the industry to direct current. Imagine how crappy everything would be if everything were run off car batteries. Fuck that guy.
Edison was a problematic person to say the least, but he was an inventor and he did not come from wealth. I think that nowadays it’s pretty much known that he was an asshole that attached his name to inventions that he had very little to do with, but at least he did contribute some things. Elon Musk is a con-man through and through.
Edison was a patent-thief and anything attributed to his name should have an asterisk next to it. He gets credited with the lightbulb, but nobody talks about how he electrocuted dogs with Tesla’s alternating current to try to sway the industry to direct current. Imagine how crappy everything would be if everything were run off car batteries. Fuck that guy.
Edison was a problematic person to say the least, but he was an inventor and he did not come from wealth. I think that nowadays it’s pretty much known that he was an asshole that attached his name to inventions that he had very little to do with, but at least he did contribute some things. Elon Musk is a con-man through and through.