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The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.

  • sebinspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
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      10 months ago

      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.