JdeBP<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Travler" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Travler</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@cstross" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cstross</span></a></span> </p><p>It is inasmuch as it is the standard plotline of the heroic businessman inventor for a whole bunch of 1930s/1940s <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a>, such as E.E. Smith's "Skylark" series. Doc Savage is a non-SciFi example.</p><p>It's not good historical analysis, but old escapist pulp fiction plotline; from the same stable as colonizing Mars and hypertrains. At best, it is Spenglerian.</p><p>None of it came close to how the subsequent 90 years of history actually happened.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OswaldSpengler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OswaldSpengler</span></a></p>