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The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.
It’s an extreme example that perfectly illustrates how profit is extracted from employees by the employers. He didn’t have any leverage to get a larger share of the profit from his labor, as is the case with most employees. You could call it toxic behavior, and it is, but it’s the expected behavior, the behavior incentivised by the system.
Really annoying that the company shat on him for years, and continued to do so after he multiplied the value of the company. Toxic behavior.
It’s an extreme example that perfectly illustrates how profit is extracted from employees by the employers. He didn’t have any leverage to get a larger share of the profit from his labor, as is the case with most employees. You could call it toxic behavior, and it is, but it’s the expected behavior, the behavior incentivised by the system.
Didn’t fire him though. I don’t think my boss would let me sit in an office doing my own project and binning notes from him for 20 years.
I bet he was ok with : Nobel prize bitch!
That’s Japan, baybee. They love their toxic work culture. Thankfully, it is slowly changing with the younger generations, however.