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Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by Reedx on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @01:33PM (#24641287)
If people don't want to bring the political battlefield into every venue, that's not only valid, but wise.

You are not going to innovate or create anything if you're fighting all day, every day. Constantly distracted. The purpose of a company is to bring people together to CREATE something of value. To solve problems. Hopefully to improve lives on some vector. And you do that most effectively by rowing in the same direction, focused.

People spending their day on Twitter or Slack or in the office halls arguing about the war is not productive. It's mostly just destructive. They're certainly not inventing anything, or curing a disease, or improving energy efficiency, or creating tools, or educating, or entertaining, or inspiring, or anything else additive.

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Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by uoaei on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @02:14PM (#24641753)
You've misrepresented the quote, and in the process invalidated your whole point.

The original quote is diplomacy is war by other means. And it had very specific connotations to explicitly adversarial political relationships. Politics is much larger than diplomacy, and indeed as Aristotle concluded there is nothing in a society that is not politics.

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