Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era

It's amazing that it's been 12 years since Elon had this image deleted from the internet:

What is the similarity between Musk and Edison?

They both fucked over Tesla

Fuck them. Starting a private company and then selling it to some tool doesn't make these guys great people. They exploited their employees and sold the company to some guy to exploit some more. I'm not sympathizing with capitalists because of other capitalists.

It's incredible. Musk held all the aces, Tesla, SpaceX, Crypto (debatable). He was viewed as a pioneer, as a philanthropist. But it seems social media fucks up every one of us. Image Nixon, it would have been immensely insightful if we had social media back then EDIT: Nixon would have been a smart Trump, fuck that timeline

Ironic that the company is named Tesla.

Nikola is probably rolling in his grave. May that glorious man rest in peace.

"You're a fuckin asshole, man. I'm out here creating electricity and you're just... Being an asshole!" - Nikola Tesla to Edison

Apparently Edison wasn't even the first historical tech bro, but some French dude that eventually killed himself with his "own" invention. And the very first modern techbro was Steve Jobs, who gets cited more and more often as an influence as Elongated Muskrat is becoming more and more far-right.

Would Elon have fried an elephant with a Tesla car battery nowadays just to make a point how bad the competition is?

Well I bet he would.*

• Edison had technically nothing to do with the killing of Topsy, it was a decade after the 'war of the currents'. It was distributed through Edison films though.

They still sold out so that Nikola's name could be dragged down to hell while they sip drinks on the beach. The cost to the rest of us is incalculable.

Edison was a monster. Meme checks out.

Just going to leave this here and y'all can do the reading: https://www.cnet.com/culture/tesla-motors-founders-now-there-are-five/

Long story short, one of these two guys was ousted and a lawsuit settlement in 2009 determined that there were five co-founders, including Musk.

They found Tesla but did they found TwitterCars though? And SpaceTwitter huh? DiggerTwitter? See? Not everyone can do 4D Chess like TwitterBoy.

And Elon is the Musk of our times imo

So instead of one dumb guy founding Tesla and running it into the ground, TWO dumb guys gave everything over to another dumb guy to run it into the ground. Masterful gambit !

Don't forget Marconi, he was also a deeply screwed-up individual who betrayed many along the way and thus was undeserving of the Nobel Prize he did receive.

Marconi basically used the patent system to raid British research institutes, violating each and every gentleman's agreement along the way. And he did it with money from the British postal or telegram offices, who he unceremoniously dumped on the eve of unveiling his wireless contraption.

And Ray Croc didn't invent McDonald's, but poured the foundation that McDonald's is built on. I place Musk in a similar, although not entirely the same, category.

Ironic, then, that he heads Tesla, named after Edison's biggest rival.

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.

Edit: Hey, cowards, instead of just downvoting me, how about some of you try to help the one brave man that actually tried to prove me wrong, he seems to be bruised from falling flat on his face so many times

My brain somehow read the title as "Tesla was the Elon Musk of his era," and I got so mad for a split second that I think I may have an aneurysm to deal with in 5 years.

who cares about cars SpaceX is where the future is starlink and starship.

And?