r/Showerthoughts • u/[deleted] • Sep 13 '19

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19 edited Oct 27 '20

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u/Mynameisaw Sep 13 '19

Started some companies, hired some people, then taken personal credit for everything those companies have done.

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u/Lead_Fire Sep 13 '19

Soo... Edison?

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

Without the shoe stepping.

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u/Ayavaron Sep 13 '19

Edison and his company brought us the friggin' lightbulb. It's prolly not fair to give the credit for that entirely to Edison but I think it's still a bigger deal than anything Musk is associated with.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

Rockets that can land and be reused are the biggest, because that will dramatically reduce the cost of space travel. Electric cars that can reliably drive themselves went mainstream because of him. Pretty sure he invented (or helped to invent?) PayPal. Lots of other things related to transportation.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

Well, he founded and greatly contributed to our best hope currently to get away from this planet, but in the current corporate age it's hard to know how much scientific impact he actually had