I wish I could find this NPR bit I remember where they go through the amount of human labor hours required for 1 hour of light through history, up to the genesis of the modern age and they took great lengths to talk about how Edison's great invention wasn't the light bulb, it was the power grid that could turn that bulb on on a large scale. And how JP Morgan and his newfangled banking tech was so important to the light bulb that Edison was with JP in some bank at launch of his new system.

It really ties together nicely all this nonsense.

That it my eyes, it's multi-faceted human progress that's shining through and to lay it all at the feet of free trade capitalism is to really muddy up an incredible story.