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Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by eli on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @02:02PM (#24641619)
I dunno, but I bet in the long run the mattress company that allows internal debate outperforms one that silences it.
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Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by SpicyLemonZest on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @02:06PM (#24641663)
I just don't see how yelling about complex and emotional social issues could help a company build good mattresses.
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Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by pm90 on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @02:34PM (#24642023)
Because activism is more than yelling about complex and emotional social issues, even if that’s the way you perceive it.
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Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by eli on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @02:44PM (#24642148)
Is there anything between yelling and forbidding all discussion?
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Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by SpicyLemonZest on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @03:01PM (#24642380)
To some degree. It's very possible for employees to have polite discussions over the lunch table about political topics, and to the extent Coinbase is trying to prohibit those discussions I'm against it.

Is there a way to have employees say e.g. "the company needs to endorse suchandsuch political slogan" or "the company needs to oppose suchandsuch candidate" without yelling? I don't think so.

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