You can call it "stealing" if it was patented. And then it wouldn't be counted as his invention. Invent anything, I'm almost sure there's someone who thought of it first. You might seen it somewhere, or in your dream, or in a movie... So - to make it simple - we have patents. If you're serious about inventing things - you just file a patent. If it's granted - it's yours. If it's not yours - it's not granted ;)

I for example - invented Windows before Windows. But Microsoft made it ;) No hard feelings, I couldn't make it anyway. Seriously, I've just made a GUI on top of DOS, it displayed a movable windows with frames and some controls. 320x200, 256 colors, VGA resolution.

Now let's translate it into a lightbulb. You make a bulb with a filament that glows for a while then the filament burns. You get the idea. It took a lot of work to actually make a bulb with a filament that doesn't burn that quickly, produces enough light to be useful, at the same time being relatively cheap to manufacture. Don't forget about manufacturing process.

he stole from immigrants and claimed inventions as his own.

You are right perhaps I miss interpreted

Like you know

I took it as the implication. That could have been mistaken. If it was, then okay, but what then did you mean? (And the goalpost moving is thus not intentional, even if still a matter of fact.)

You’re moving the goal posts. Nobody said seriously traumatized anywhere

Please don't upvote this idiocy

I don't think "terrible" and "weak" go together. I think it's wrong to call seriously traumatized people "terrible".

Its inspirational for sure...

But I'm not sure if it's motivating me to keep going with the inventing and attempting.. or if it wants me to take the Edison route and just start stealing shit

I tend to speak to myself with the more better grammar.

I also like to cite other people’s work and not pass it off as my own.

Failing 10000 times must have been super frustrating. If it was me I would have started looking around and I would have stolen the idea from someone else.

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Didn't he outright steal from other inventors?

#Hell Yeah!

Objectively untrue. There are tons of terrible, weak, non-bad-ass people out there.

Except for all the stuff you ignored and didnt handle.

So true now let's eat tide pods.

I almost didn't reach the egg. Woohoooo!

Thank you, I needed this today.

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Something I learned to tell myself much too young:

“I’ve survived everything in my life so far. Even the things I was certain I wouldn’t. I will continue to survive.”

Our minds are everything.

Thoughts and feelings turn into actions. Actions make up our life. That's why most great people famously protect their minds like soldiers.

“Most good gardeners guard their gardens like proud soldiers and make certain that no contamination ever enters. Yet look at the toxic waste that people put into the fertile garden of their minds every single day: The worries and anxieties, the fretting about the past, the brooding over the future, and those self-created fears that wreak havoc within your inner world.”

We can’t afford the luxury of negative thoughts.

So, if I'm a Challenge that means I make everyone's life meaningful and interesting. I think I will make mistakes on purpose. Thank you sir, good day.

I read that as "Challengers" and thought to myself, "This must be a Camaro guy."