Superman Corporations strictly adheres to a "9-to-5" commute 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 the relevant authorities, then you only need to work four hours a day. For the citizens of the Red League at that time, the "eight-hour working day" was still a very capitalist and exploitative thing. "Overtime" is adding to the economic crisis of overproduction.

This is not alarmism, one person doing the work of two people, but taking a little or five people's wages, is equivalent to eliminating half of the people's consumption. If consumption does not go up, the great cycle of social reproduction will be blocked, and the economic crisis will naturally sprout. In Japan, it is normal for employees to take the initiative to clock in and go back to work when they get off work, saving wages for the company and making the labor bureau unable to start.

However, the former Red League has always been troubled by internal and external troubles, and the implementation of these work systems is not uniform in various places. With the Third Reich eyeing up, the former Red League suspended this system in order to prepare for war. And in the bloody storm of the Great Patriotic War, the Red League began to do whatever it takes, and the once lofty ideals were completely forgotten. Since the sixties and seventies, the privileged classes have done whatever they want in the Red League, and they even dared to shout that they could "do whatever they want". The system of guaranteeing the welfare of workers is non-existent.

Except for a very small number of workshop-type enterprises, perhaps Superman is the only large enterprise on the planet that has had such a short average annual working hours since the 90s of the last century.

The time outside of these six hours is freely arranged by the employee.

The clerk on the side of the West Third Ring Road, Tao Enhai is rare. I think they can also make an appointment to go to the mall and watch a movie after work. Or you can chatter.

After all, there's only one office over there.

And the research center has a lot more options. Xiangshan, they all occupy an entire office building. Not only that, but there are several laboratories in the vicinity.

There's a lot more space left.

Superman also has an impressive library that is supervised and open to employees on days off. There is a lot of information in it, and there are also some relaxing entertainment products.

In addition, Superman also encourages employees to form "interest groups" and other organizations after work. Moderate exercise is good for keeping you energized. Mr. Chen Feng, a martial arts enthusiast, organized a "lunch break swordsmanship training class" within the company, and several enthusiasts often used the lunch break to practice in the basement.

However, they also have some leisure activities that are more in line with their status as "scholars".

For example, a lecture.

Even among the world's top academics, there are many people with teaching positions. The "teaching position" here does not refer to the graduate students who lead the apprentices like craftsmen, but to teach in front of the class. For example, Hermann Minkowski met Albert Einstein, who had not yet become famous, in a mathematics class at the University of Zurich, and left the latter comments such as "bad at mathematics" and "a lazy dog".

You must know that when Minkowski was seventeen years old, he was already the world's first-class mathematician, and at the age of twenty, he was able to talk and laugh with David Hilbert, the world's first mathematician at that time. And when he despised the young Einstein's level of mathematics, he was already past his prime.

In addition to the idea of "following the abstinence of learning" and satisfying the spiritual needs of "teaching and educating people", scholars are also very beneficial to themselves when they become teachers.

In essence, science is to use a set of "words that everyone can accept" to put into words the "partial truth" that we see, and then compare it with others, improve each other, and so on.

The process of thinking about "how to teach others what I know is a general reflection on what I have learned." You have to let people see what they see, you have to convince others, and you have to make others accept your ideas from nothing. This process is conducive to academic research that is systematically studied.

Xiang Shan naturally has his name on Tsinghua's side. Chen Feng is also a researcher at Peking University. Aside from them, none of the other scholars at Superman Enterprise would mind having a name on their local academic institution. This also facilitates their integration into the local environment. However, due to the constraints of the research, most of the researchers at Superman Enterprise do not have a teaching position at the university.

So, they want to lecture, that is, internally.

This is an initiative advocated by Xiangshan. The heads of the research department have done this to a greater or lesser extent. Rest time or working hours without scientific research tasks are fine, do whatever you want, set your own content, and give lectures to internal employees to systematically organize your own ideas.

For employees in the research department, this is nothing short of a perk. Most of the scholars, including Yagmov, are among the best in the world. Even if not, it will soon be improved in such an environment.

It's hard to find out there.

If Yagmov is willing to go to Qingbei to give a class, I'm afraid that the entire biology department will have to crowd over to listen to the lecture.

Tao Enhai has been in the company for three weeks, and he has encountered this kind of lecture several times. It's just that he doesn't hear much. After leaving his profession, he was as ignorant as ordinary people in other fields. Doing interdisciplinary research doesn't start with the cutting-edge content in other fields.

He also had to take time to lay the groundwork.

Ingrid finished writing the title and said, "Indeed, if you are interested, come and hear it?" ”

Although Ms. Ingrid Granath is a linguist and calls herself a traditional "generative-transformational school", her research methods are very close to "cognitive science". She also studies the mechanisms by which the human brain processes language. Tao Enhai felt that if he did it formally, there would be a good chance of cooperating with this lady.

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

"Well, African tribal names. A mix of several tribal names...... You can understand it as 'a linguistic study based on a new Creole language'. ”

Creole ...... Oh. It took a moment for Tao Enhai to remember the meaning of the word.

Creole was originally a term for a "mixed language", but in the field of linguistics, it can also be used as "a natural language that mixes several different languages, but has its own grammatical lexicon and is a native language".

The original Creole language came from the slave trade. The Spaniards forced the indigenous people to mine in the Americas. But after the death of the local population, 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 used the native language of the big guys, mixed with the language of the slave owner. This hybrid language is just a few words with no grammatical rules. However, the descendants of these slaves listened to their fathers speak this language and adopted it as their mother tongue.

Subsequently, they instinctively complemented this language, which had no grammar and morphology, and became a "separate" natural language.

This process often takes only one generation.

The existence of Creole proves that "language" itself is an instinct – an instinct engraved on the flesh, just like eating, drinking, walking, and kneeling.

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" are innate.

Many psycholinguists feel that the birth 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." "One of the countries he's been to in the last few years is a very small country, just in the middle of a long civil war," Ingrid said. More than a decade ago, the world wasn't so good, you know...... That kind of world crisis has also spread over there. That small country was plunged into a civil war, and people slaughtered each other. If it weren't for the fact that countries have strengthened their peacekeeping forces in the past 30 years, I am afraid that it would have been another catastrophe. ”

"Even with the involvement of the United Nations, there are still orphans from different tribes...... They were pooled by the UN. And in the camps, new languages were born. ”

"That's really ...... Magical. Tao Enhai admired: "I think the boss is also interested in this topic......

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

"But he seems to come to your lectures a lot?"

"He is only concerned with the hierarchy of grammar, with the basis of grammar in the brain. His goal is a set of languages that can run fluently in the human brain as well as in a computer. Ingrid patted the whiteboard: "He doesn't care about the origin and flow of language. He is not a linguist after all. Even he doesn't care about the interplay between culture and language......"

Tao Enhai scratched his head: "Boss, this anti-traditional? ”

In his eyes, traditional culture can be roughly divided into ancient Greco-Roman garbage, two rivers garbage, Vedic garbage, pre-Qin garbage, steppe barbarian garbage, other garbage, and the harmful substances produced by the fermentation of these garbage for 2,000 years. Ingrid coughed, mimicking Xiang Shan's tone, "'Ah yes, I know these things were very advanced three thousand years ago. But after 2,000 years of storage, do you still dare to eat a plate of pastry?' He only respects official holidays and has little interest in traditional holidays. Willing to eat with your family at the 'reunion moment' of your republic is also valuing family over tradition. That's what he is. ”

Ingrid pointed to the whiteboard behind him: "There is a lot of research on cultural and historical backgrounds, and he will ask for a handout afterwards." ”