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American inventor and businessman with over a thousand patents, he created the phonograph, the commercial light bulb and the first industrial research lab. He backed direct current against Tesla and was a deist freethinker critical of organized religion.
Political axes
Thomas Edison leans further toward irreligious than 90% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion is where Thomas Edison stands furthest from the rest.
On Intervention, Thomas Edison sits practically at the catalog median.
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Conservative branch that defends order, tradition, and institutions without grounding them in religion, supporting cultural values and social stability with secular, historical, and pragmatic arguments.
Economic system based on private property, free markets, and the pursuit of profit, in which production and prices are regulated by competition and supply and demand, with individual initiative as its engine.
Model that entrusts the management of the state and the economy to experts and technological efficiency, combining markets, innovation, and technical decisions instead of political deliberation and traditional party competition.
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Clerical FascismThird Position36%
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