it's actually a mix. as with all aspects of life. if tesla was allowed to get his way and give "free energy" to the world, we would be able to power the lights and what not, but most of our modern electronics wouldn't exist. perhaps that would be a good thing, but then on the other side of it the microcomputing that we have wouldn't exist. humanity would have taken a different technological course. i think most "scientists" that think they are geniuses are usually not. they can't compete in a competitive market. it's why most retarded professors and other activists hang out and with their universities so much. without the easy public funding to fund their idiocy, they would be literal nobodies. that's not to say some of them are not smart, it's just that they are limited by an incorrect thinking. there is a ai professor at a certain university, that is smart enough to potentially create the next break through, but refuses to try to compete in the "capitalistic market", while also is being gimped by the school's leftist policies. meanwhile, we have literal autistic neets who are at the forefront of the ai technology, and people want to shut them down because their ai's are basically unfiltered.   tesla wasn't a genius, just smart. einstein similar situation, are his ideas even his? we have a situation right now, where it is said that the fathers/godfathers of ai were far leftists. yet if you look into the actual history, and who actually came up with the algorithms and foundational logic for such algorithms, it was capitalists. if anything, we should learn the only thing that matters is who wins, and not does not. the problem i have with capitalism and socialism, is that it fundamentally "shares" things (be it technology/tools or food) with people who will later try to use the technology/tools and foods against the very people that provided it.
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