Geniuses who die poor

Most of the names are immediately recognized: Poe, van Gogh, Tesla, Socrates, Wilde, Melville, and Gutenberg.

Men who offered so much to society and had nothing to show for it at the end of their lives. We celebrate them now, thinking somehow they will live on in eternity. But they didn't live for eternity. When it mattered the most, they were alone. They died probably cursing society, not asking what more they could have done.

Live your life for you, not slaving away for society. It will never be satisfied. It will always ask for more until you have nothing left. Then you die and the cycle repeats. Drop out of the cycle, it's the only way to save you in this lifetime because change won't come for the foreseeable future. I think this is a good reminder that being selfish isn't necessarily a bad thing [unlike how society paints it]. These men all sacrificed their time to use their brilliant minds to make our lives easier and to entertain us yet were treated like dirt. It's extremely sad to read how these gifted minds were marginalised.

http://nanopatentsandinnovations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/10-celebrated-geniuses-who-died.html

Put yourself first and live for yourself and not for the opinions and judgements of society.

Einstein, Marx, etc etc

I wouldn't describe Marx as a genius. Nor did he improve society at all. Given what his work has done to places where it is given any credibility, it is quite fitting that he died in poverty.

Are you kidding? Marx has had a massive positive effect on a whole range of political theory and social science. His writings have drastically influenced the way capitalism is treated, and helped bring a whole wave of workers rights and social welfare. Most countries in the world are better off, directly or indirectly from his writings.

Also, as a point, both Russia and China were taken from distraught overpopulated third-world states, to modern superpowers through socialist principles.

He's also indirectly responsible for the oppression and deaths of millions. Not the greatest of things to have in your legacy.

I wouldn't describe Marx as a genius. Nor did he improve society at all. Given what his work has done to places where it is given any credibility, it is quite fitting that he died in poverty.

He's also indirectly responsible for the oppression and deaths of millions. Not the greatest of things to have in your legacy.

He's also indirectly responsible for the oppression and deaths of millions. Not the greatest of things to have in your legacy.

Quite an intriguing read. Antonio Meucci, another genius who died poor, was the real inventor of the telephone. He drew up the original plans for the design. However he was too poor to afford a patent and a flourishing businessman [Alexander Graham Bell] stole Meucci's idea, and patented it. Thus Meucii died heartbroken while Bell became rich and well known worldwide. The acts of fraud can be so devious and unfair, yet remain undetected by society. In our textbooks, literature, writing, we are constantly being referred to Bell when talking about the invention of the telephone, while Meucci is never mentioned.

However it makes me glad that people have started to dismiss Bell's claims of inventing the telephone, and have started to give Meucci credit (for example the US congress have finally accepted that Meucci was the original inventor, over a century after his death). Anyway I believe Meucci would have been happy to see the world as it is thanks to his invention, never mind whether Bell takes all the fame and fortune, because he simply wanted people to keep in touch with each other. Unlike Bell, Meucci was keen on improving people's lives rather than making money.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/jun/17/humanities.internationaleducationnews


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I wouldn't describe Marx as a genius. Nor did he improve society at all. Given what his work has done to places where it is given any credibility, it is quite fitting that he died in poverty.