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These people's talent is wasted on Youtube. Like instead of applying himself in a lab towards a real problem, he's fucking around with budget electronics in his ramshackle garage chasing Youtube views. If he spends his entire life on Youtube doing this, is he ever going to create or invent anything worthwhile? I won't even say "probably not", I'm going to say "definitively not".
What he did in this video is super cool. It's also super useless. He didn't discover anything we haven't already known and anyone with a degree in photonics couldn't have described. It's an awesome parlor trick.
Like if Nikolai Tesla had a Youtube channel would he have ever worked for Westinghouse on A/C electrical theory or would he have just spent his entire life performing flashy gimmicks for clicks? Imagine how little he would've accomplished if he was in the "earthquake machine / death ray" phase for his *entire life*.*
*Yes, his silly gimmicks later in life were fake, sorry to disappoint you conspiracy dipshits.
I wouldn’t doubt his YouTube projects are just for the love of engineering his own toys and experiments. He probably has a day job at bell labs or something like that. As for Tesla, he wasn’t interested in “clicks”, or rather notoriety in his day. Tesla enjoyed being around pigeons more than other humans, at least that’s what I’ve read a few times, he was not a people person and his interests were beyond wealth which is why all he had at the end of his life was mainly papers and patents, along with a whole bunch of debt. Without a question he could’ve been super wealthy if that’s all he cared about.
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>Without a question he could’ve been super wealthy if that’s all he cared about.
Short of starting his own company, which would go on to create tangible things, there was no other way to monetize that type of talent at the time. Now there is. I fear it is its own "brain drain" in a way.
Nikola could’ve been rich AF if he wanted to be without ever starting his own business, in fact there were periods where he was rich by late 1800’s to early 1900’s standards. He waived the royalties on several of his inventions so people could use his tech for free so long as the people who wanted to use his tech paid for the materials and built it themselves….but even for the inventions that earned him repeated royalties, and the inventions he sold outright without a repeated royalty, he immediately put all of his profits right back into R&D for new ideas and projects, most of which didn’t get sold to anybody, so his profits were drained in the process.
Like I said, his goal was never about getting rich. Shit man, he had the patent for AC power generation and for the electric motor, those two patents alone would’ve earned him millions of dollars had he not sold his rights to the patents to George Westinghouse for $60,000. Tesla still could’ve been a millionaire from the royalty clause that Westinghouse agreed to for Tesla’s motor patent, which was supposed to cost Westinghouse $2.50 per horsepower produced by tesla’s motors, that royalty clause was so costly to Westinghouse that he would’ve went bankrupt had Tesla used the courts to force Westinghouse to pay for all of the horsepower Tesla’s motors produced. Nikola tore up the royalty clause part of the deal because Westinghouse was his friend, so all he really got was the $60,000 worth of cash and stock in Westinghouse, which in the early 1900’s would’ve been the equivalent of like 2.3 million dollars by today’s standards.
It’s not really a waste. This guy isn’t anywhere near the top of his field.
I’ve noticed that in almost every industry, there’s someone making YouTube videos about it. These creators usually have a basic understanding and are mainly focused on entertaining a general audience. Then there are the actual experts, the ones doing meaningful, often unseen work. Those experts usually aren’t impressed by the YouTuber.
Even in my own field, there are plenty of people on YouTube repeating outdated or well-known information. To the general public, they might seem like super duper geniuses, but to those of us actually working in the field, it’s nothing new.
I bet anyone in his field could replicate that experiment he did within a week or even less with no difficulty. But they don’t because it’s a pointless exercise.
What he did in this video is super cool. It's also super useless. He didn't discover anything we haven't already known and anyone with a degree in photonics couldn't have described. It's an awesome parlor trick.
Like if Nikolai Tesla had a Youtube channel would he have ever worked for Westinghouse on A/C electrical theory or would he have just spent his entire life performing flashy gimmicks for clicks? Imagine how little he would've accomplished if he was in the "earthquake machine / death ray" phase for his *entire life*.*
*Yes, his silly gimmicks later in life were fake, sorry to disappoint you conspiracy dipshits.
Short of starting his own company, which would go on to create tangible things, there was no other way to monetize that type of talent at the time. Now there is. I fear it is its own "brain drain" in a way.
Like I said, his goal was never about getting rich. Shit man, he had the patent for AC power generation and for the electric motor, those two patents alone would’ve earned him millions of dollars had he not sold his rights to the patents to George Westinghouse for $60,000. Tesla still could’ve been a millionaire from the royalty clause that Westinghouse agreed to for Tesla’s motor patent, which was supposed to cost Westinghouse $2.50 per horsepower produced by tesla’s motors, that royalty clause was so costly to Westinghouse that he would’ve went bankrupt had Tesla used the courts to force Westinghouse to pay for all of the horsepower Tesla’s motors produced. Nikola tore up the royalty clause part of the deal because Westinghouse was his friend, so all he really got was the $60,000 worth of cash and stock in Westinghouse, which in the early 1900’s would’ve been the equivalent of like 2.3 million dollars by today’s standards.
I’ve noticed that in almost every industry, there’s someone making YouTube videos about it. These creators usually have a basic understanding and are mainly focused on entertaining a general audience. Then there are the actual experts, the ones doing meaningful, often unseen work. Those experts usually aren’t impressed by the YouTuber.
Even in my own field, there are plenty of people on YouTube repeating outdated or well-known information. To the general public, they might seem like super duper geniuses, but to those of us actually working in the field, it’s nothing new.
I bet anyone in his field could replicate that experiment he did within a week or even less with no difficulty. But they don’t because it’s a pointless exercise.