In most of the Eastern societies you don’t really have an individual voice. They have “cancel culture” embedded as a feature and not a bug. You wouldn’t dare speak against whatever norm is at the time.
Needless to say many of her American workers had no conception of this cultural ideal, much to her great consternation!
Also, doesn't English have the expression "Tall poppy syndrome"?
Also see "don't stick your neck out," "the squeaky wheel gets replaced," "don't rock the boat," "speech is silver, silence is golden", "shit rolls downhill", several Biblical proverbs and some Shakespeare.
I’ve never ever seen “replaced” being used instead of “grease”.
Now in a modern, globalized world any new technologies are immediately imported(stolen?) and produced more cheaply and exported back undercutting/crippling the benefits that would otherwise have been had.