Let’s see. Pads. I believe the filament in light bulbs was either invented or contributed by Black man before white guy took credit. Fountain pen. The super soaker. And a whole shit ton of other things.
And those are things that we know of. You poke around history enough you will learn very quickly to suspect any white guy who claimed to have no help.
White cis men were stealing ideas and inventions left and right. Wasn’t a Black person, but there was a women who came up with a machine to make modern paper bags with the flat bottems quickly.
A guy almost succeeded claiming it was his before she proved it with ordinal drawings and stuff. Who know how many people were not so fortunate.
I don’t like the framing because the fame for the invention feels very silly to attribute to the group or insinuating it’s only possible because of race or something. I think things like movies, books, code, lessons, blueprints, and recipes have a great artificial scarcity that takes a Titanic amount of constant effort to maintain. People should always be tinkering, learning, reinventing and refining like you’re trying to find exploits in Ocarina of Time for speed running. What was the race of the person who invented Ganonfloor? Who cares???
I think it’s good to take ideas even if it’s to barely change it. I think the fucked up part is to aggrandize invention and participate in capitalism with an enforced artificial scarcity with the invention. It’s the difference between the haber Bosch method and Monsanto suing over cross pollination. Only under capitalism and pessimistic, cynical, virulent chauvanism can cross pollination be bad.
Let’s see. Pads. I believe the filament in light bulbs was either invented or contributed by Black man before white guy took credit. Fountain pen. The super soaker. And a whole shit ton of other things.
And those are things that we know of. You poke around history enough you will learn very quickly to suspect any white guy who claimed to have no help.
White cis men were stealing ideas and inventions left and right. Wasn’t a Black person, but there was a women who came up with a machine to make modern paper bags with the flat bottems quickly.
A guy almost succeeded claiming it was his before she proved it with ordinal drawings and stuff. Who know how many people were not so fortunate.
I’d like to make a synthesis of this and @CrawlMarks@hexbear.net’s ideas
I don’t like the framing because the fame for the invention feels very silly to attribute to the group or insinuating it’s only possible because of race or something. I think things like movies, books, code, lessons, blueprints, and recipes have a great artificial scarcity that takes a Titanic amount of constant effort to maintain. People should always be tinkering, learning, reinventing and refining like you’re trying to find exploits in Ocarina of Time for speed running. What was the race of the person who invented Ganonfloor? Who cares???
I think it’s good to take ideas even if it’s to barely change it. I think the fucked up part is to aggrandize invention and participate in capitalism with an enforced artificial scarcity with the invention. It’s the difference between the haber Bosch method and Monsanto suing over cross pollination. Only under capitalism and pessimistic, cynical, virulent chauvanism can cross pollination be bad.
This is a good post.