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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

I mean, in a lot of ways he didn't care about the economics of his inventions. He wanted to transfer electricity wirelessly across huge areas and there really wasn't a way to monetise that if everyone could just tap into that.

In a communist society you could build something like that, in capitalism you're not going to find an investor to do this.