‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase

Re:‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase by SpicyLemonZest on Friday November 27, 2020 @08:16PM (#25234229)

If Wired's reporting is accurate (https://www.wired.com/story/turmoil-black-lives-matter-polit...), Coinbase did try to ride the line, but a bunch of activists demanded for Armstrong to publicly chant the slogan and eventually went on strike until he did.

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Re:‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase by adjkant on Friday November 27, 2020 @08:22PM (#25234265)

Then they made their choice - their employees believed their company was not supporting them as people and forced the issue. Coinbase then chose its side. Is there anything more to say?

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Re:‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase by jlokier on Friday November 27, 2020 @09:03PM (#25234494)

From those actions alone you can't determine if Coinbase rejected George Floyd/BLM, or rejected all kinds of slogan chanting that the CEO was pressured to chant by strikes.

It was, after all the first time he was pressured that way.

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Re:‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase by adjkant on Friday November 27, 2020 @09:13PM (#25234546)

I disagree from my interpretation of what we do know. They could have made the case about that specifically if they wanted to, but they decided to deflect with a blanket policy on politics. To say we can't determine anything is silly - we're making best guess judgements, not trying Coinbase in court for murder.

I've made this comment elsewhere, but I really would love to know why people are digging in so hard here. Let's just call a spade a spade.

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