CHAPTER 388: CHAPTER 388: CRYING OUT FOR SYMPATHY

"With technology advancing at lightning speed and new things constantly emerging, there are always those eccentric individuals who blame every little thing on these new inventions, never taking a moment to self-reflect. They always bring up minors, making it seem like the whole world has to make concessions for their growth."

"Rather than rejecting new developments to foster the growth of minors, why not use these new things to guide them? Isn’t this what a true educator should do? Does bashing holographic technology make you look noble and elite?"

However, while educational celebrities were harshly criticizing Paige Sterling, Penson and Chambers Group had jointly launched a new holographic learning helmet to help teenagers study.

With holographic gaming helmets already in the market, the learning helmets sold out almost immediately upon release.

The response was still overwhelmingly positive, finally shutting up those educational celebrities.

But there are always some people who are nobodies in real life, yet get idolized online by netizens.

Having no way to criticize Paige Sterling on educational grounds anymore, they started looking for other angles.

For instance, claiming the helmet could cause brain death by trapping people in games, or questioning if wearing it for too long would cause radiation harm...

But soon, these critics of Paige Sterling realized she was simply untouchable.

Accused of making holographic gaming helmets that interfere with children’s studies and lead to nationwide gaming addiction, she then introduced a holographic learning helmet for you.

Criticized for the claim that holographic helmets lead to weak self-control and game addiction, causing comas, she directly created a helmet that could awaken people in vegetative states and assist disabled people with rehabilitation.

Others attacked the holographic helmet for radiation concerns; fine, she showed them the radiation test reports...

Now what can they say?

All those so-called celebrities found themselves being mocked by netizens instead.

"All you do is mindlessly chirp away, so concerned about national well-being, why don’t you study learning helmets? Why don’t you research medical helmets...?"

"It turns out keyboard warriors are everywhere; as long as you criticize others, you feel accomplished even if you can’t achieve anything yourself..."

No matter how much the arrival of holographic technology was criticized domestically, nothing could stop it from taking the world by storm.

Only that the holographic helmets couldn’t be bought domestically, let alone overseas, countless foreign netizens even bypassed the firewall to watch live streams of those who managed to buy helmets domestically, wishing they could go petition Penson to produce more.

But Penson couldn’t do anything; half of the technical staff had left, and even Penson’s team was already understaffed. Producing more wasn’t feasible; she even wanted to halt production.

This technology, Paige Sterling, had developed a long time ago, but the prior versions were all for military cooperation.

The current holographic technology was developmentally downgraded based on military use.

Many people and companies tried every means to acquire holographic helmets, hoping to study them themselves.

But the outcome was predictable; the holographic helmets had anti-theft mechanisms set by Paige Sterling; once disassembled, they became worthless scraps, providing no insights.

After much scheming only to meet this result, it drove the executives to create alternate accounts online to accuse Paige Sterling of monopoly.

But such complaints, frankly, few people care about.

Because it’s not a monopoly, it’s a patent. Why would someone give you their patent for free? Who do you think you are?

And with holographic technology, those smart pets developed by other companies truly paled in comparison.

The holographic games feature pets that are even cuter than smart pets, for instance.

Every holographic-related product encountered interviews, and now Chambers Group has already invested in filming the first holographic movie, sparking a heated discussion online upon the announcement of its start.

And at this juncture, Penson officially announced a redistribution of its shares on V-blog.

Paige Sterling divided her own shares, giving them to the core tech team at Penson.

Though not a lot, given Penson’s money-making capability, this sum was enormous.

This meant that besides salaries and year-end bonuses, Penson’s core tech team could now receive dividends exceeding a hundred million dollars annually.

Being so generous to employees is simply unheard of.

Some speculate that Paige Sterling is doing this to retain technical staff following the previous exodus of key personnel.

But one has to admit, this method is quite effective. If it were them, they wouldn’t want to leave Penson either.

For a time, Penson’s core tech team was called the happiest employees in the world.

Numerous scientific researchers anxiously expressed their desire to join Penson as well.

The researchers who received shares also flocked to V-blog to express their gratitude. One researcher even revealed that Paige Sterling had prepared over fifty share transfer agreements, ensuring each tech lead received one, and these agreements were prepared half a year ago.

It was originally planned to release them after the new product launch, but unexpected defections occurred, even immediately selling Penson’s secrets to the rivals.

In the end, the fifty-plus share distributions turned into just over twenty.

This inevitably made people think of those who had left Penson.

Had they not left, they could also have held Penson shares now.

One must know that at their new companies, though offered high salaries, they didn’t receive shares.

Moreover, the salaries didn’t reach the level of a hundred million a year.

But the tech staff who stayed at Penson now had an additional income of over a hundred million, can they not regret it?

In fact, those people do regret it deeply now.

They thought that leaving Penson promised them a great future since they could replicate all Chambers Group’s products.

However, after going out, they realized replicating all of Penson’s products was impossible.

Some core data had been given directly by Paige Sterling. They thought they could research it, but no matter how superior the new company’s research conditions were, they still failed to develop that core data.

Additionally, lacking those colleagues for exchanges made them feel trapped in a dead end, unable to escape.

At this critical moment, Penson released a holographic online game it had never before ventured into, with promises of future holographic movies and medical equipment, showing that when people thought Penson was exhausted of innovations, its brilliance was only just beginning.

Now, they have begun regretting their short-sightedness, focusing solely on immediate benefits and not seeing the more promising future.

Especially now, learning that Paige Sterling has distributed shares to the tech staff.

Thinking of those who stayed, not only can they learn more advanced scientific knowledge at Penson, but they also received its shares...

They all knew Paige Sterling was generous, but they didn’t anticipate she would be this generous.

What’s most crucial is, having the guidance of Paige Sterling; without her, they might have stalled in their progress, whereas their former colleagues continue to benefit from her mentoring.

Anyway, leaving has proven counterproductive.

Among those who left, some have even started resenting Paige Sterling,

questioning how such a massive holographic project could be completed by Paige Sterling in such a short time?

So, it must have been prepared in advance.

Even with them being the technical backbone of Penson, they didn’t know anything; Paige Sterling had always been guarding against them.

They devoted so much to Penson with dedication, yet Paige Sterling treated them like this; isn’t it too much?

Gradually, some of the people who left started making statements online, feeling wronged.