Re:Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County ...
by Apocryphon on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @03:40AM
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The great man theory is overrated, and this case in particular because many of Newton's discoveries would have been found by his compatriots anyway- Leibniz already invented calculus independently of Newton, Hooke had developed theories of gravity at the same time of Principia Mathematica as well. If not Bezos, you'd be thanking the Waltons or Sol Price. If not Musk, then Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning- the engineers who actually founded Tesla.
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Re:Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County ...
by iateanapple on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @07:45AM
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> The great man theory is overrated
It is more complex than you are making out. Cultures that denigrate the great men don’t produce as much or innovate as much as those that revere them.
Re:Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County ...
by Apocryphon on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @12:30PM
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All cultures revere great men, even- perhaps especially- atheistic ones.