Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era
Madison420@lemmy.world 6 months agoInaccurate 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.
Tnaeriv@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Source?
Madison420@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Education owed him 50k, roughly 1.2 million dollars in today’s metrics.
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.
Tnaeriv@sopuli.xyz 6 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:
But you see that? He never said it was Edison, just ‘The Manager’.
Btw in that same book Tesla calls Edison “a wonderful man”.
Madison420@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Where did you find that. I’ve got multiple sources who say the same, you’ve got “nuh uh” for a subject better you not I were alive to know first hand.
How is sourced PBS publication “a fucking pile of garbage” you never even offered actual criticism.