I bet that rich dumb ass would love this comparison.

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    He wasn’t.

    The War of the Currents was Edison and Westinghouse. The elephant was executed by the ASPCA and filmed by the Edison Studios years after, that company had been sold by Edison years before. The payment argument was Tesla and a manager.

    Tesla and Edison wrote each other personal letters and spoke well of each other in public years later.

    Edison was an asshole. Tesla’s ‘legend’ is weird.

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      6 months ago

      Here’s a great in-depth video on Edison and his relationship with Tesla. It seems that Edison was actually remarkably progressive for the time in a lot of ways, and, while not perfect, he seems to have been a much better employer than many of his rivals.

      Edit: Lol and then like ten hours after this comment they dropped a four and a half hour video going into much more detail about both.