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Yep, Ford was a Grade-A facist. I mean, one of the guy's most famous quotes is, "You can have it in any color you like, as long as it's black." Straight out of the Moussolini playbook. Edison was a jerk and an exploitative businessman, but he wasn't in the same category of evil as Ford, by a long shot.
The GOOD GUY inventers never got squat. Tesla died broke and alone, with hundreds of unexploited patents to his name--most of which are still awaiting practical application. Farnsworth has his name on a sign in Rigby, Idaho ("Birthplace of Television", it says), and that's about it.
Goes to show: inventiveness alone is only half the game. The other half is about sales and business prowess. You can fake (or buy, or steal) inventiveness, you can't fake business acumen. Gates bought Microsoft's first product, the operating system DrDOS. Everything after that was business.
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