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Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED (youtu.be)
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The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.

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[–] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I don't have an MBA, I'm saying that the CEO can only reward enough bonuses to people so they don't feel like they get stabbed in the back.

This amount might be single digit million USD, like the 8 million awarded in the end. The original bonus was quite insulting. The first amount the court ordered was actually not bad from the court's point of view since the case went to court and there are legal fees, the amount should be higher to discourage companies from screwing their employees

But awarding 200 million to begin with would be overkill. It doesn't accomplish anything other than being a "lottery" payout. Other workers can't expect this much money because it's literally one of those discoveries of a century