Tesla a victim of his own naivete?
To some extent, this may be true for Tesla's belief that no one among us should or would have an issue with humanity receiving what the Universe offers FREELY already in abundance: Free Electricity.
You see, Tesla had developed a method of transmitting electricity through the air (I imagine it would work similarly to the way in which radio works today: If you have a receiving antenna of some sort --perhaps a Tesla coil-- then you'd be able to receive electrical energy and thus have power in, let's say, your home). However, Tesla's method of transmitting electrical energy posed a problem for J.P. Morgan, Tesla's financier at the time: There was no means available to measure the energy output. And, J. P. Morgan, forever an unabashed capitalist and a very powerful banker of his day (circa the turn of the 19th century into the 20th), was interested in only making money, NOT giving away electricity, despite its natural abundance in nature.
In Morgan's view, this meant that such a technology could not be implemented and WOULD not be implemented, if he had anything to do with it, to be given freely unto the world. Morgan wished to "capitalize" on the technology, and thus make money. After all, he was indeed Tesla's financial backer and principal investor at the time.
In any event, the destruction of Wardenclyffe Tower, a facility designed originally by Tesla for the purposes of transmitting electricity, ensued in 1917.
In my opinion, I think it may be safely said that J.P. Morgan, forever the diabolical banker ("Competition is evil"), decided the fate of humanity virtually single-handedly when he destroyed any notion of the dispensation of free energy. It is the very reason we have power lines that oftentimes are eyesores in what are otherwise beautiful natural landscapes --our neighborhoods, our downtown areas, our parks--all because one man did not have it in his heart to see to it that electricity could be distributed freely.
What a tragedy.