Well that explains everything. Thank you for all your research. I'll be sure to reference this for my doctoral thesis project 

So by that logic, how did nice things ever occur to begin with? Without them ever existing,  we couldn't have not had them. 

We can't have nice things because all the nice things rely on Edison's work but hewhocantbenamed denied his work and now were stuck with un-nice things.

I've heard multiple reasons and the jury is out on narrowing it down.

Why can't we have nice things?