Elon Musk could not more clearly be the Edison of Teslahttps://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1259897686402056192 …
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And this gets taught in school as a *good thing*, as an *inspiring story* With the same spin they do for Musk - "Well he was right there on the floor with them"
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I don't give a shit No union organizer says "Well if Elon is there too then that's okay" Assuming that hype is true that's his own neurosis and his own fucking problem
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As a kid I did 2 book reports on Edison. I recall a story where 1 of his workers - trying to show the dangers of the chemicals they were forced to work with- pranked him by claiming his teeth (chiclets he’d put there) were falling out. Edison was horrified & the workers LOL’d.
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..& how none of them worked until he bought a German vacuum pump that could remove enough air. The 1st working bulb used carbonized cotton thread as a filament. Today bulbs use tungsten wire. He'd already tried tungsten & abandoned it. It wasn't the filament, it was the vacuum.
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Right, and hence that effort poured into "We just have to keep WORKING in case we stumble on the answer" without ever stepping back and thinking about it was completely wasted
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