[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Einstein was working in a patent office while he worked on his theories such as relativity, I know that.

Was Nikola Tesla funded by the government? Edison? The Wright brothers? Jonas Salk? Henry Ford? Gates? Jobs? I don’t think they were, I could be wrong about some.

To me it seems these scientists today are being funded by our tax money so they can be extorted into pushing bullcrap that fits the leftist agenda like man made global warming. “Say it’s real or your funding will be cut”

This is why the free market is so vitally important, it takes leverage away from the left.

[asinclair]

Thomas Alva Edison was a telegrapher for the railroad, entrepreneur, and owner of a private-sector lab facility in Menlo Park, New Jersey. I studied his life while in school, and do not recall a time when he worked for any public sector outfit. He invented the voting board that was installed in the New Jersey house, but did it as a private sector inventor. Indeed, it was one of his first inventions that was turned down by the public sector because it was "too efficient" and downplayed the back of the hall negotiations done during the votes.

Of the others on the list:

• Wright Brothers: bicycle shop
• Jonas Salk: https://www.salk.edu/about/history-of-salk/jonas-salk/ very much involved in medical research at NGOs. Part of his work on the polio vaccine was funded with a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
• Henry Ford: private sector, invented the production line for building cars
• Bill Gates: a chip off the old Edison. He built traffic counters for government, but as a private sector person. Microsoft was definitely not public sector.
• Steve Jobs: also a chip off the old Edison. Garage entrepreneur with Steve Wozniak.