Re:‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase
by acdha on Saturday November 28, 2020 @09:03AM
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The people I know who are or have children on the spectrum would take issue with your opening sentence. Armstrong might find that a convenient excuse but it shouldn’t erase all of the effort most people put into being considerate.
Re:‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase
by vmception on Saturday November 28, 2020 @10:21PM
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It was only about the excuse the CEO made, not about anyone else.
Direct all of that energy at him for the representation he is making about people on the spectrum.
If he wants to lean on that as a crutch on all of his organizational decision making skills, then we absolutely get to call him out on that all the time until he does something different.
(who in the article is quoted himself as saying his behavior is because he's on the spectrum.)
Brian Armstrong shut himself in because he doesn't want to deal with it. He doesn't know how to deal with it. All of Coinbase's actions are guided by the consequences, for example, they never needed to address their flash crash because they just needed to placate customers while they were closing a 9 figure funding round announced a few weeks later. They aren't worried about precedent, they are worried about keeping the ship afloat long enough to sell shares to Robinhood traders. This strategy works.
They can also create an inclusive environment that allows them to address underserved markets more accurately. They didn't.