Yep, Edison was a cruel but successful business man. The first to produce an industrial research facility.
But you guys should have defined the parameters of the argument. What defines "better" here? If it's financial success then yeah, dick-hole Edison won. If it is influence on the world then Tesla's inventions impacted more people. If it's deserving of reverence? Edison's industrial facility only pumped out products faster. Had he not existed then the actual inventors would have eventually been able to do it themselves. Instead, some of them died penniless and Edison reaped all of the rewards because he could afford lawyers.
This is like declaring any mob boss who died of old age to be the winner compared a highly respected individual who didn't make as much money. Um, sure...
Olas said:
Eh, basically here's how I see it.
If anyone disagrees let me know, this is just my general impression of each man.
Edison was basically a total dick. So I'd have Tesla higher on kindness and Edison much lower.
I mean, Edison flat out stole products from other countries and cheated employees out of promised wages. He killed animals and generally fought against ideas he knew full well to be better for society just to turn a higher buck.
Other than that, your impression is pretty spot on.
Rufus Shinra said:
Work Ethics? Edison? HA! That guy had people stealing "A Trip To The Moon", one of the most important movies of cinema history, to sell it himself in the US and keep the money rather than having, you know, the director and his team, who invented most of the special effects for the next forty years, getting the credit and the badly-needed cash.
It's like if someone stole copies of Star Wars in 1977 to sell them in Europe and Canada under their own name and ruined Lucas.
If you view his business as basically ripping off other people's ideas and then mass producing them then yeah, he had an excellent work ethic. Some thieves work really hard and becomes successful because of it.
