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Originally Posted by Finger Cookin
Lots of interesting questions and food for thought posited, but I'm picking on this one. Are there a lot of corporations out there who, when they take employee inventions and innovations developed on company time, treat the employee as prized inventors? I don't mean in stories, I mean like in our world. I feel like the CEOs and executives get that glory (Jobs spearheaded the iPhone! Where would we be without Gates and Windows?), but I couldn't tell you individuals at the companies who thought up GUIs or smartphones.
Maybe that's just a personal blindspot? But it feels more like a cultural thing.
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I mean in the sense that you isolate them somehow so they can't run off and become a competitor or a saboteur. The iphone/ipod are slightly different in that those were developed in house. It's closer to an external tech that jump started a company like Jobs/Wozniak. Woz for instance is running around, but there's enough protection for Apple to avoid a significant road block if he suddenly gets upset. There seems to be very little defense for Cobel getting upset is what I mean.
Maybe we don't know enough of the Severance universe for it to be less weird, but I felt like ep 7 and 8 revealed how many weak spots Lumon had by not managing personnel appropriately. Cobel and Reghabi have the ability to really screw up their severance tech and it just seems like a footnote so far. Reghabi makes sense that she's basically in hiding, but Cobel able to be running around openly as a significant vulnerability to Lumon is weird. Burt being able to openly tell people about severance technology's true history is also weird (especially since they can technically take that info).