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Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by mediaguilt on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @01:19PM (#24641133)
Weird point of view when most tech and engineering is used to generate political instability, misinformation and vote suppression. In the case of coinbase I wouldn’t be surprise if the « amazing engineering » is mostly used for tax evasion or to by-pass politic finance laws, corruption laws etc...
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Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by makuto on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @02:01PM (#24641601)
That's a pretty jaded view of the world. Most tech I would guess goes towards increasing value in the company: improving their offerings, making new technology which solves problems for people/companies, etc.

Very few people have the time and money to fund tech and engineering purely to influence elections. Most money coming in to tech is going to be from customers and investors, the latter being in interest of making money off of the business getting more customers.

Companies like Cambridge Analytica are a very very minute minority compared to the swaths of B2B, consumer tech, etc.

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