Cyber Heroes

Superman Enterprise strictly adheres to the "9 to 5" commuting time, with a two-hour lunch break in between.

In other words, there are only about six hours of work per day.

When the former Red League was still on the rise, it also implemented the "six-hour work system" and the "seven-hour work system." If it is hazardous labor or heavy labor approved by relevant departments, then you only need to work four hours a day. For the Red League citizens of that period, the "eight-hour work system" was still very capitalistic and exploitative. "Working overtime" is contributing to the economic crisis of overproduction.

This is not alarmist. One person does the work of two people but earns the salary of 1.5 people, which is equivalent to eliminating half of the person's consumption. If consumption cannot increase, the general cycle of social reproduction will be blocked, and an economic crisis will naturally germinate. In Japan, where employees take the initiative to clock out and then return to work when they get off work, it is a nonsense that saves the company wages and makes the labor bureau unable to do anything. It is really normal for the economy to be damaged.

However, the former Red League has been plagued by internal and external troubles, and the implementation of these work systems is not uniform in various places. With the Third Reich eyeing the war, the former Red Alliance suspended this system in order to prepare for war. In the bloody turmoil of the Patriotic War, the Red League began to do whatever it took, and its once lofty ideals were completely forgotten. Since the 1960s and 1970s, the privileged class has done whatever they want in the Red League. They even dared to shout that they "can do whatever they want." The system to protect workers' welfare is in name only.

Except for a very small number of small-scale workshop-style enterprises, perhaps Superman Enterprises is the only large enterprise on the planet with such a short average annual working hours since the 1990s.

The time outside these six hours is freely arranged by employees.

Tao Enhai is a rare clerk on the West Third Ring Road. I think after they get off work, we can also arrange to go to the mall and watch a movie. Or you can chat.

After all, there is only one office there.

There are many more choices at the research center. Xiangshan and the others occupied an entire office building. Not only that, there are several laboratories nearby that are owned by them.

The remaining space is much larger.

Superman Enterprise also has an amazing library, which is supervised by dedicated personnel and is open to employees on holidays. It contains comprehensive information, as well as some relaxing entertainment products.

In addition, Superman Enterprise also encourages employees to voluntarily form organizations such as "interest groups" after work. Moderate exercise is good for keeping you energetic. Mr. Chen Feng, a swordsman enthusiast, organized a "lunch break swordsmanship training class" within the company. Several enthusiasts often use their lunch breaks to go to the basement to practice their skills.

However, they also have some spare time activities that are more consistent with their status as "scholars."

For example, give a lecture.

Even among the world's top scholars, many of them hold teaching positions. The "teaching position" here does not mean tutoring graduate students like a craftsman tutoring an apprentice, but teaching in front of the class in a serious way. For example, Mr. Hermann Minkowski met the yet-to-be-famous Albert Einstein in a mathematics class at the University of Zurich, and left the latter with the impression that he was "bad at mathematics" and "a lazy dog." Wait for comments.

You know, when Minkowski was seventeen years old, he was already the world's top mathematician. When he was just twenty, he could chat and laugh with David Hilbert, the world's top mathematician at that time. When he despised young Einstein's mathematical proficiency, he was already thirty years old.

In addition to the idea of ​​"continuing learning" and satisfying the spiritual need of "teaching and educating people", it is also very beneficial for scholars to take up teaching positions.

The essence of science is to use a set of "words that everyone can accept" to put down the "part of the truth" that one sees in words, and then compare it with others, strengthen each other, and continue to make progress in this way.

The process of thinking about "how to teach others the truth I know" is an overall reflection on what I have learned. You have to make people see the facts you see, make others convinced, and make others accept your ideas from scratch. This process is conducive to academic research in systematic research.

Xiang Shan naturally has his name on Tsinghua University. Chen Feng is also a researcher at Peking University. Apart from them, other scholars from Superman Enterprise did not mind having their names attached to local academic institutions. This also helps them integrate into the local environment. However, due to limited research arrangements, researchers at Superman Enterprises basically do not have teaching positions in universities.

Therefore, if they want to give lectures, they will do so internally.

This is an initiative advocated by Xiang Shan. All the heads of the research department have done this to a greater or lesser extent. It can be done during rest time or during working hours when there are no scientific research tasks. You can do whatever you want and customize the content. You can give lectures to employees within the company to systematically organize your own ideas.

For employees in the research department, this is a boon. Most scholars, including Yawgmoth, are among the best in the world. Even if it is not, in such an environment, it will be improved soon.

This is something you can only find outside.

If Yawgmoth is willing to go to Qingbei to give a class, I am afraid that the entire biology department will crowd in to attend the lecture.

Tao Enhai has been in the company for three weeks and has encountered this kind of lecture several times. However, he didn't hear much. After leaving his profession, he is as ignorant as ordinary people in other fields. Doing interdisciplinary research does not start with the most cutting-edge content in other fields.

He also had to spend time laying the foundations.

Ingrid finished writing the title and said: "Indeed, if you are interested, come and listen to it?"

Although Ms. Ingrid Granat majors in linguistics and calls herself a traditional “generative-transformative school”, her research methods are very close to “cognitive science”. She also studies how the human brain processes language. Tao Enhai felt that if he officially did it, he would have a good chance of cooperating with this lady.

"This theme..." Tao Enhai glanced at the whiteboard: "I didn't understand the first word."

"Well, the name of an African tribe. A mixture of several tribal names...you could read it as 'based on linguistic research of a new Creole language'."

"Creole...oh." It took Tao Enhai a while to remember the meaning of this word.

Creole was originally a name for a "mixed language", and in the field of linguistics, it can also be regarded as "a natural language that is a mixture of several different languages, but has its own grammar and morphology and has someone as its mother tongue."

The original Creole language comes from the slave trade. The Spanish forced the native peoples to mine in the Americas. But after the local residents died out, slaves were brought in from Africa. These slaves came from different tribes in Africa and spoke different native languages. They also have difficulty communicating with each other.

In order to communicate with each other, the slaves mixed the native language of the big guys with the language of the slave owners. This hybrid language is just some words and no grammatical rules. However, the descendants of these slaves heard their fathers converse in this language and adopted this language as their mother tongue.

Subsequently, they instinctively completed this language without grammar and morphology, becoming an "independent" natural language.

This process often only takes one generation.

The existence of Creole language proves that "language" itself is an instinct - just like eating, drinking, walking, and knee-jerk, it is an instinct engraved on the body.

Although the specific grammar is still acquired, and the language of each nation comes from the long-term accumulation of history, the ability to "speak" and "learn foreign languages" is innate.

Many psycholinguists believe that the birth process of "Creole" is evidence of the existence of "Universal Grammar".

"I have a friend who has been doing fieldwork in Africa for a long time." Ingrid said: "The country he went to in the past few years is a very small country, but it has been in a civil war for a long time. More than ten years ago, the whole world was Not so good, you know... That kind of world crisis also spread over there. That small country fell into civil war, and people massacred each other. If countries hadn't strengthened their peacekeeping forces in the past 30 years, it would have been another catastrophe. "

"Even when the United Nations intervened, there were orphans from different tribes... who were rounded up by the United Nations. And in the camps, new languages ​​were born."

"This is really... magical." Tao Enhai praised: "I think the boss is also interested in this topic..."

"Pfft..." Ingrid smiled unkindly. She shook her head: "The probability of that guy coming to this class is very low."

"But he seems to come often to listen to your lectures?"

"He only cares about the hierarchical structure of grammar and the basis of grammar in the brain. His goal is a language that can run smoothly in the human brain and in computers." Ingrid Patting the whiteboard: "He doesn't care about the origin and evolution of language. After all, he is not a linguist. He doesn't even care about the interaction between culture and language..."

Tao Enhai scratched his head: "Is the boss so anti-traditional?"

"In his eyes, traditional culture can be roughly divided into ancient Greek-Roman garbage, Lianghe garbage, Vedic garbage, pre-Qin garbage, grassland barbarian garbage, other garbage, and the harmful substances produced by the fermentation of these garbage for two thousand years." Inge Lid coughed and imitated Xiang Shan's tone: "'Ah, yes, I know these things were very advanced three thousand years ago. But after two thousand years of storage, do you still dare to eat a plate of pastries?' - He probably That's the attitude. He only respects legal holidays and has little interest in traditional festivals. He is willing to eat with his family at the 'reunion moment' of your republicans, and he also values ​​family rather than tradition. This is the kind of person he is."

Ingrid pointed to the whiteboard behind her: "It involves a lot of research on cultural and historical backgrounds. The most he can do is ask for a handout afterwards."

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