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Unpopular opinion: Edison wasn’t nearly as bad as people are painting him to be.

Extra unpopular opinion: Musk is, very much, quite similar to Nikola Tesla, as he was an extravagant lunatic, that really liked talking about shit he had no idea about, a bitter loser that prefered playing the victim over accepting responsibility for his failures, and he also had fanboys that mindlessly gobbled up everything he said.

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Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Inaccurate opinion more like it. Dude pulled Trump shit and just refused to pay people he owed. Tesla died in poverty while Edison owed him tens of thousands of dollars, sure he isn’t that bad… Its like saying Henry Ford wasn’t an absolute piece of shit.

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- Tnaeriv@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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  - Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Education owed him 50k, roughly 1.2 million dollars in today’s metrics.
    
    Several months after Edison employed him, Tesla announced that his work was successfully completed. When Tesla asked to be paid, however, Edison seemed astonished. He explained that the offer of $50,000 had been made in jest. “When you become a full-fledged American you will appreciate an American joke,” Edison said. Shocked and disgusted, Tesla immediately resigned.
    
    Not just a shitty person but a literal bigot that likely would have followed ford in aligning himself with Hitler, he simply didn’t live long enough and missed it but like 7 years.
    
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    Tnaeriv@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I’d really like to see where you got that quote, because it’s complete bullshit. This story originally comes from Tesla’s autobiography:
    
    The Manager had promised me fifty thousand dollars on the completion of this task but it turned out to be a practical joke.
    
    But you see that? He never said it was Edison, just ‘The Manager’.
    
    Btw in that same book Tesla calls Edison “a wonderful man”.
    
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