Hey Austen, sorry to be a killjoy
, but electricity wasn’t an invention, it was a discovery...it was always here (e.g.
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Never said electricity was an invention :)
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Hadn’t realized that electricity, just as so many inventions after it
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Electricity was derided as a toy for the rich, as were many inventions that came after electricity. That doesn’t say that electricity was an invention.
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Oh ok just admit your tweet was wrong
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Just admit you read something wrong, tried to lob bombs at some popular twitter account you don’t like, and now it’s too late for you to backtrack
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Popular? You took the bait cause you were wrong and have wasted your time defending it lol
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I love that this got retweeted by Horace.
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Who said electricity was invented?
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You did, it was discovered
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It always amazes me it literally got _everywhere_. ISPs use the excuse today that's it's too expensive to run out to rural areas.
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Same was true for early electricity distribution. Like ISPs, the for-profit firms didn’t want to go to rural areas... The solution was government backed electricity coops...https://www.electric.coop/our-organization/history/ …
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Interesting in that the modern day equivalent of that is local municipalities making their own ISPs, similar to how they already provide utilities such as water. Instead it being actively lobbied against by the large ISPs.
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Thats what happens with everything from educational innovation to material innovation. The rich monopolize it, then the masses
#hack it, and then the wealth gets better distributed.... and we lift more people out of poverty. There is always attrition in process.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Who said the line "We'll make electricity so cheap only the rich will burn candles"?
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Who is, rhymes with Mlon Eusk?
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Supposedly Edison used words to that effect.
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