We need an entire website devoted to people like Victor Gruen and Robert Probst who had utopian/empowering visions for their inventions who's work was co-opted by capitalism and turned into something they utterly despised.

@DensetsuNoGomez Dude was a chemist who is responsible both for leaded gas and freon refrigerant.

He was, by all accounts, a very good chemist.

He just happened to develop two things which later turned out to cause planetary-scale ecological damage.

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