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Re:1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company by fleddr on Friday October 08, 2021 @03:29PM (#28803147)
Whilst technically correct, I still object. Many if not most things aren't political in a meaningful way, but surely you can make them political.

This is how you get "water is racist" and the entire movement of social justice becomes a thing of ridicule. The strategy harms, it doesn't help.

Re:1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company by malermeister on Friday October 08, 2021 @03:30PM (#28803158)
How about this: Every economic interaction (which includes employment) is political. Would you agree with this?
Re:1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company by imtringued on Friday October 08, 2021 @06:20PM (#28804794)
Take one step back. The interaction might not be political in itself but the desire to be able to engage in it might be. As others said, buying a lawn mower isn't political. Demanding that the product you are buying is safe and that economic transactions are done with USD or Bitcoin is definitively political.
Re:1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company by emsy on Friday October 08, 2021 @03:35PM (#28803215)
I will think about it the next time I buy an old lawnmower on craigslist.
Re:1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company by fleddr on Friday October 08, 2021 @04:55PM (#28804075)
That's lawnmower ageism.
Re:1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company by ABeeSea on Friday October 08, 2021 @04:03PM (#28803559)
I hope you properly paid sales tax on that purchase, if required, as the political system in many US states requires you to.
Re:1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company by emsy on Friday October 08, 2021 @05:01PM (#28804143)
If I take a dump I have to ensure to dispose it properly, because the fecal disposal is tightly regulated by many states, therefore taking a dump is a political issue.
Re:1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company by oh_sigh on Friday October 08, 2021 @07:57PM (#28805597)
That's the legal system not the political system.
Re:1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company by ABeeSea on Sunday October 10, 2021 @09:14AM (#28818170)
And you think there is a difference between the two?
Re:1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company by oh_sigh on Sunday October 10, 2021 @06:45PM (#28822663)
Yes. And thinking there isn't a difference makes you silly, not clever.
Re:1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company by dragonwriter on Friday October 08, 2021 @04:28PM (#28803825)
> How about this: Every economic interaction (which includes employment) is political.

“Economics” and “politics” are just different lenses for viewing interactions relating to the distribution of power (equivalently, control of scarce resources.) They are the same thing; economic interactions are political and vice versa; economic power is political power and vice versa, etc.

This is also why capitalism (enabling the private accumulation of economic power) and democracy (involved the egalitarian distribution of political power), despite both initially being advanced by the same moves away from the particular structure of the monarchic/feudal concentration of both, are fundamentally in tension and ultimately incompatible.

Re:1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company by fleddr on Friday October 08, 2021 @03:33PM (#28803197)
No, not at all.
Re:1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company by refenestrator on Friday October 08, 2021 @04:06PM (#28803597)
Cryptocurrency is a huge climate problem -- why is the opposition to coinbase all about social justice takes from twitter?

It's not political, it's fashion.