I get what your saying, but I think the benefits of DC power plants would have been short term, rather than long term.

Once scaling was introduced there’s no way Edison DC power stations every block would make any sense materially, financially or societally.

I can’t blame Tesla for toxic capitalism any more than I can blame the wright brothers for manipulative airline ticket prices today.

Same reason we didn’t have electric cars a hundred years ago

Unregulated capitalism and undeveloped antitrust laws are the culprit with respect to centralization, not innovation.