Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission

Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by toomanybeersies on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @11:53AM (#24640064)

I've been around the block enough times to realise that any tech job inevitably has morally murky dimensions.

It's never in regards the big overarching social issues like racial politics though. It's the advertising companies you work with, the casinos and bookmakers (which is the only time I've made a moral stand at work), or people losing jobs that are replaced by automation.

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Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by devthrowawy on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @12:06PM (#24640243)

The key, IMO, is to write software in the engineering industry not the tech industry. Plenty of interesting problems, large breadth and depth of knowledge across many disciplines, real business models, real product, really helping drive technology forward. It took me too long to realize that the 'tech' industry is mostly cult garbage looking for an exit.

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Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by coddle-hark on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @01:38PM (#24641332)

Not participating in morally abhorrent behaviour is admirable and really important. The problem, I think, is when people put it on themselves to police other’s behaviour.

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Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by beerbajay on Thursday October 01, 2020 @10:00PM (#24658029)

What about other people's abhorrent behavior?

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