That’s the first thing I said when the Tesla brand started gaining traction. Tesla, the man of a great scientist, used as a fucking brand.
It disgusted me.
But back then Elon was considered cool and popular, so I was the weird one. Dude with a lot of money said things peopled liked to hear. I guess it simply works, even when you have zero charisma.
People like Elon Musk destroyed Nikola Tesla.
But he is also revered and a unit of measurement of magnetic flux density, so a bit of a mixed bag.
Yea I feel really bad that his name was stolen by a talking pile of shit that’s literally the polar opposite of what he stood for in life. Honestly feels pretty terrible.
It’s real sad because I was super stoked for Tesla Motors like 20 years ago.
Honestly me too. I remember seeing one of their earlier iterations on the street, shaped like a lotus supercar. I had hope then
It was easy to have hope for the company before Musk “founded” it
I mean, the first roadster was a Lotus.
damn, not 10 years but 20 years ago. You’re an OG
I was a young Nikola Tesla stan. I knew EVs were inevitable, and the early roadsters were excitingly (in an adoption sense) sexy.
Fucked over in life and in death
In physics class I roll my eyes and sigh when we have to start talking about the T unit because my students’ brains are gonna go to one of those cars or the company.
Show a picture of Nikola Tesla anytime you mention the unit. Or just have a poster of him in your classroom.
Unpopular opinion:
Nicola Tesla was a questionable figure himself at least. Despite having several great inventions, he claimed a lot baffling promises. He wasn’t scientist in my opinion, but inventor or experimenter. Since he don’t try to proof his ideas wrong, like real scientists do since 17 century. Reading wiki section Later years of him https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#Later_years really gives me vibes of Musk tweets sometimes.
I’ve had this thought several times. It’s a damn shame.
