Stone Cold Steve Jobs

He also did it to people outside his sphere of influence. There’s a story of him going overseas to Britain to attempt to secure a patent on something two brothers made. Since it was in Britain he had to file there. If I recall right, he didn’t get there in time and it was already patented. He was furious.

See? I think that's something people forget. No matter the era or place, there's always been greedy bastards. No doubt the Wheel or the Radio or some other big invention or discovery was made several dozen times. It's just the one time that it did get commercialized widely enough for the world culture to pay attention did it get written down under that one guy's name.

 Like, keep hearing about how some great big disease that wiped out thousands of people... was cured instantly when it showed up in some tiny Podunk village. Because they didn't know it was such a fuss in the rest of the world, and the rest of the world was too cut off from them to know they just needed one specific tree.

 Like, Modern America is all in a tizzy about Season Affective Disorder and Norway or whatever has dealt with it since they founded their nation. Their cure is, like, go lay in the snow until ya calm down. 

 Point is, point is. Bullies like Edison have been around. History repeats itself. Ain't nothing gonna happen that hasn't been dealt with or thought of before. It's what ya focus on.

Like the color Blue.

Exactly. There are always going to be people like that. But you CAN bring them down. Enough little guys can always defeat the giant.