Originally Posted by ArrestMeRedZ
He sounds like a modern day Edison. Brains get you only so far, both of these guys work(ed) hard for unbelievably long hours. And Musk is able to motivate people to perform at and beyond their peak, much like Edison did.
His mistake is expecting anything resembling intellect from the mindless bots that make up most of the bureaucracy that runs many California urban communities.
Edison was a plagiarist that tinkered, not an inventor.There's a huge difference. I wouldn't necessarily call Elon an inventor either, maybe a refiner. Sure, nobody's made electric cars like his, but all of the underlying technology was already there in some form. Even the self-driving stuff. So he would be like Edison, taking others' original ideas and throwing mad amounts of other peoples' money at them until something worked.
Neither is an inventor in the same sense of the word as Elon's company namesake, Nikola Tesla. Tesla was a real inventor, and yes, probably "nutty" to those of us who didn't understand ideas that were a century ahead of their time. There are things 130 years later of Tesla's inventions that we still can't duplicate. The man essentially created the driving force for the entire 20th century as we know it, and thanks to Edison's hatred of what he couldn't understand nor plagiarize, he hated Tesla and used his powerful, wealthy friends to drive the man into obscurity. Kids these days don't even know who Tesla is, yet spew favorable lies about Edison like he actually accomplished something novel. Alas, history is written by the winners and those with the deepest pockets... not the actual truth.
