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Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by fleddr »

malermeister wrote: post #29
emsy wrote: post #12

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Why do people think work is an appropriate place for political activism?

Everything you do is implicitly political. To say you're non-political is just another political position itself - complicity with the status quo.

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

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Post by ygaitonde »

disneygibson wrote: post #59
malermeister wrote: post #29

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Everything you do is implicitly political. To say you're non-political is just another political position itself - complicity with the status quo.

Without food, you can’t survive, therefore everything is implicitly about food. This line of thought is absurd. Words have definitions and boundaries for a reason.

> Without food, you can’t survive, therefore everything is implicitly about food.

This, but unironically.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by malermeister »

fleddr wrote: post #81
malermeister wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everything you do is implicitly political. To say you're non-political is just another political position itself - complicity with the status quo.

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.

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

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Post by garrickvanburen »

ianbutler wrote: post #17
ohazi wrote: post #11

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Unless you're labor . Capital can speak up about whatever it wants (so long as it doesn't start sympathizing with labor, of course)

You're paid to do a job. Politics is for your personal time. We need to work on getting more personal time for people so people can focus on those passions instead of further blending work and personal life.

Your job is to support and maintain the policies of your employer. That’s inherently political.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by fleddr »

malermeister wrote: post #69
mechanical_bear wrote: post #63

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Hard disagree. Sometimes being apolitical is just a desire to not get involved and has nothing to do with supporting status quo.

Not getting involved always means at least tacitly supporting the status quo. To think otherwise is just an expression of privilege. There is no being apolitical.

Nonsense.

Silence means just that, silence. It could mean anything: I don't know. I don't care. I might care but don't have time to look into it. I care but it's not in my top 10 issues.

None of these options support the status quo.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by rglover »

woodruffw wrote: post #35
rglover wrote: post #30

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He's not being political, he's getting his company to focus.

Focus on what , exactly? Bitcoin is not exactly an apolitical industry. But even more generally: Armstrong's profile on Twitter includes his (ostensible) mission of "creating more economic freedom in the world." That's a very political mission, even by milquetoast American standards!

Focus on building a company that generates a return for investors and makes it possible to pay all of the people who work at Coinbase.

Anybody who works there and disagrees with what the company is doing can quit and go work somewhere else whenever they please.

You need to pull your head out of your belly button. The navel gazing you were taught at university is going to ruin your life and make you perpetually miserable.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by qeternity »

randomhodler84 wrote: post #43
arcticbull wrote: post #19

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They're all basically the same. All the arguments you have against anything not-bitcoin apply to bitcoin except bitcoin is older and way more power intensive. Doge is a better currency for a lot of reasons. Also its funny. List one, may as well list 'em all.

They aren’t the same. I’m not knocking dogecoin — it’s a real Nakamoto blockchain, a real working product. I’d rather folks bought BTC but hey, any software fork of Satoshi client is better than the scamfactory enabled by Eth.

> I’d rather folks bought BTC

Why? Presumably because you're long BTC. With all due respect, you make a lot of handwavy comments about ERC-20 scams and I agree with you, but aside from a highly speculative investment, BTC is nothing.

It failed as a currency. It failed as a unit of account. Now the narrative has shifted to "store of value" which only anyone without an understanding of what that means could say.

What does BTC do that DOGE doesn't do? Or any other scam coin? It's all speculation, you have happen to find one more acceptable (and it so happens the one you're probably invested in).

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by fleddr »

malermeister wrote: post #84
fleddr wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

How about this: Every economic interaction (which includes employment) is political. Would you agree with this?

No, not at all.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by toomuchtodo »

randomhodler84 wrote: post #79
hnxs wrote: post #66

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“sir this is a casino”

Right. It’s a shame that the CB mission went from decentralizing and empowering individuals with BTC to scamming and gambling on shittokens in just a few years.

You can’t convince someone of something when their enormous wealth depends on them not believing or understanding (not Coinbase or Brian Armstrong specific, general observation). People can and do perform Olympic level mental gymnastics to justify their belief systems.
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