• deweydecibel@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      And that financial industry bled into the other industries, and started stealing the credit.

      Musk is a good example. The perfect one, really. True engineers and scientists could be the figureheads of those companies, but when you think Space X, you think of that wart of a human being.

      Edison was a shithead with his company and his money, but he was still the genuine article when it came to engineering. More than can be said for Musk.