Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission

Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by CarelessExpert on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @01:04PM (#24640965)

Certainly true, though to me that only reinforces my point.

Investors invest in companies based on their perception of the value of a company, and that perception is of course coloured by political views.

Heck, we have an entire financial movement called Socially Responsible Investing, something which is nakedly political and a clear acknowledgement that politics cannot be, and has never been, divorced from business.

I find it infinitely more strange to think that workplaces can be apolitical at all. Choosing to work for Palantir or Coinbase or The Gates Foundation or Amazon is (in part) a political decision. It may not be a conscious or intentional political decision, but it's a political decision nonetheless.

How could anyone think otherwise?

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Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by chillwaves on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @01:26PM (#24641221)

Movement to support the investor class is just another angle of politics. People forget this, since they are such a dominant wing in western society.

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