• PugJesus ( PugJesus@piefed.social ) OPEnglish
    38·
    10 months ago

    Explanation: Nikola Tesla was a prolific and wildly influential inventor of the early 20th century AD. He also was in constant dire financial straits despite not having any major expensive vices (other than inventing), because, unlike his contemporary Thomas Edison, Tesla was not adept at maneuvering business deals (and certainly not with the cutthroat ruthlessness that Edison displayed - several times at Tesla’s expense).

    Capitalism is better than feudalism because it rewards a wider range of intellectual ability and success than feudalism does… but that range still does not include innovation. You wanna be paid for your innovation in a capitalist system? Better have a lawyer and a business agent on hand as soon as you get out of the patent office. :/

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮  ( Kolanaki@pawb.social ) English
    7·
    10 months ago

    Nobody would fund his crazy idea of free electricty for all, since there was no return on that investment. Capitalism is why we don’t have free unlimited energy.

    Oh and Edison stole a shitton of his (and other people’s) ideas while simultaneously slandering them to fuck their reputation and improve his own.

    • psud ( psud@aussie.zone ) English
      2·
      9 months ago
      1. Tesla’s free energy for all plan wouldn’t work. We get closest to it with single wire; Earth return. Earth can’t carry both directions, and the air cannot carry a reasonable amount of power, lightning aside — and you can’t run lightning bolts to each customer
      2. Tesla’s free energy for all plan would be difficult to metre so it would have to be funded by a flat rate so it would be difficult to encourage people to use less power
  • WorldsDumbestMan ( WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ) English
    4·
    10 months ago

    Both Tesla and Edison (who was a scammy capitalist, but got fucked over anyway). Both of them died poor.

    So we can use this as an argument when someone says “It’s just because your skill isn’t actually valuable”.

    No, your community isn’t valuable, and I am wasting my value on you.

  • Gladaed ( Gladaed@feddit.org ) English
    2·
    10 months ago

    Being a good inventor also means being able to distribute and produce your inventions. Great ideas are cheaper than competitive, efficient and affordable ones.