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Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by 0xCMP on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @10:37AM (#24639134)
You take for granted current working conditions which were won via hard-fought political battles and which affect us to this day.

Also what about Maternity leave? Paternity leave? Are those not political?

How is negotiating working conditions not related to "how we engage and collaborate with each other as a society"? It's inherently (little p) political even if the engagement is at a company similar to how politics on your local HOA is still politics.

edit: typo

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Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by CyberRabbi on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @10:42AM (#24639200)
I think you’re conflating issues relevant to the business of the company, which might be considered political, and political issues which are irrelevant to the business of the company. The former is okay, the latter is not. The subject of OP is the latter.
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Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by sagichmal on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @11:27AM (#24639745)
Broadly, it's incorrect to claim the issues at hand here are irrelevant to the business of the (or any) company.
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Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by CyberRabbi on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @11:51AM (#24640043)
What issue are you claiming is relevant to the business of every company?
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Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by sagichmal on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @12:45PM (#24640721)
In this case: basic and functional equality of the members of a society. Like pornography, this is hard to define precisely, but I know when the violations are egregious enough, and the functional equality of black Americans through in the eyes of the police right now is certainly egregious enough.
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Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by CyberRabbi on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @01:56PM (#24641545)
Police brutality of black Americans is simply and factually not relevant to the business of every company.
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Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by sagichmal on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @08:48PM (#24645985)
Insofar as it represents a fundamental and existential inequality in society, it certainly is.
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Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by CyberRabbi on Saturday October 03, 2020 @03:31AM (#24670302)
Really not. Many businesses are not impacted by inequalities in society.
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