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1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by TheGigaChad »

babyshake wrote: post #396
civilized wrote: post #311

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Basecamp's angry worker faction was demanding the company apologize for contributing to a white supremacist, genocidal culture... because some customer service folks had a funny customer name list that included names from all backgrounds. That had absolutely nothing to do with basic dignity for marginalized groups. It was simply a grab for power and status. One of many. We who have been watching are very familiar wit…

If you work in customer service, just don't make fun of your customers. It makes it harder to do your job well.

Wrong. Go suck dick.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by cxzaq »

jrockway wrote: post #67

What mission did they focus on and how did it go? All I see here is "I wrote a controversial screed and many people tolerated it and kept showing up to work." That's great and all, but what sort of new things did it unlock? How do you compare it to the world where you didn't write the screed? It all feels like a heap of bullshit to me -- if you're in the right industry, you can be the worst manager on the planet and…

> let them discuss how black lives matter at work.

That is not how it works. In practice, there is a bigoted, mostly fresh from college activist group that considers themselves morally superior. Some Gen-X and Boomers join for their careers.

The group looks down on everyone else, treats them with suspicion. Gen-X, who wore Greenpeace and anti war buttons and helped introduce women quotas in the workplace is lectured by brats with $250,000 salaries (which for some reason the little angels don't give away to Black people).

The whole movement is deeply hypocritical and self-serving. It is NOT merely discussion!

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by wreath »

fullshark wrote: post #521
staysafeanon wrote: post #257

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>What mission did they focus on and how did it go? RTFA: https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-a-mission-focused-comp...

So many words until this: > Coinbase’s mission is to create an open financial system for the world. This means we want to use cryptocurrency to bring economic freedom to people all over the world. Basically sounds like “mission focused” = “do your job”

Yes do what you are hired for. How does this not compute in the minds of many is baffling to me.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by remarkEon »

plorg wrote: post #548
remarkEon wrote: post #518

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Frankly, none of what you said is relevant to my point. What I have a problem with is the immediate reversion to the most caustic framing possible of a person who disagrees with you. > If a trans person walked into my office their existence would be a political problem Maybe my problem with this is a semantic one, since I’m a student of language, but describing it in this way is legitimately insane to me. Insane in t…

"Insane" is a pretty charged word for a person deeply concerned about jumping to the most caustic framing possible. I can't say that I know how every person means the things they say, but "my existence is political" is a relatively common statement, and I have never understood it to strictly mean that "I am alive subject to political whims." Every time I've encountered it the person saying it described how the mere a…

> I can't say that I know how every person means the things they say, but "my existence is political" is a relatively common statement…

This is in fact not a common statement, and is only found in select coastal cities with high populations of people who have elite educations. More than half of the country has no idea what you’re talking about.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by mvc »

refenestrator wrote: post #102
jrockway wrote: post #67

What mission did they focus on and how did it go? All I see here is "I wrote a controversial screed and many people tolerated it and kept showing up to work." That's great and all, but what sort of new things did it unlock? How do you compare it to the world where you didn't write the screed? It all feels like a heap of bullshit to me -- if you're in the right industry, you can be the worst manager on the planet and…

Noisy echo chambers are uninclusive to anyone who doesn't hold that precise political viewpoint. We both know that the program goes way beyond "black people shouldn't be indiscriminately shot", its driven by people who are addicted to social media and perpetually pushing for another rush of outrage. I'd prefer not to be around that, personally.

> We both know that the program goes way beyond "black people shouldn't be indiscriminately shot"

I say we call their bluff and stop shooting black people indiscrimately anyway. That'll show 'em.

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Post by mvc »

poszlem wrote: post #354
SamoyedFurFluff wrote: post #345

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What do you do if your peer reports you as political because asking people to go by your new name is a political demand? I’m genuinely asking, because I’m under the impression that even asking people to respect your pronouns can be too political, or trying to use a bathroom you think matches your gender.

I can assure you that most people would not bat an eye they were asked to use a different pronoun. The problem starts when they are 1) forced to do so b) suddenly have to "disclose" their own pronouns, and you end up on a zoom call with he/hims she/hers and one they/them. The problem is not that some people want to stop being marginalised, the problem is that the aim is to marginalise a normal person.

What's a normal person?

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by mritchie712 »

brodo wrote: post #534
gorwell wrote: post #32

Every company that continues to let itself get embroiled in Twitter's Political Topic of the Week is at such a distinct disadvantage it will ultimately fail. It's inevitable if you extrapolate. They won't survive the evolutionary process and will get selected out, only earning themselves a Darwin Award. Imagine a rowing team where half the team rows in one direction and the other half rows another direction. They nev…

FAANG are de-facto monopolies and have created their own markets so market forces work on them only to a small extend.

Monopolies die too, see railroads.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by tomp »

SamoyedFurFluff wrote: post #358
tomp wrote: post #352

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Sure, in that case if it’s medically indicated and not elective, that’s a different situation.

Why does a workplace get to determine what is and isn’t medically elective for a woman to take birth control? Isn’t that political too?

I'm not arguing about politics, I'm putting in question the whole idea of making voluntary (not sure if that's the correct term - definitely not elective as I was corrected above) medical procedures available through insurance. Insurance is meant for unpredictable and unforeseen exceptional events. Wanting to have beauty surgery, or contraception, or lasik surgery, etc. isn't such. You could still argue that these should be covered by insurance, but that's simply economically inefficient - you're essentially paying for a subscription service, with the middle man taking a cut - why not just buy it yourself?

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by [deleted] »

b9a2cab5 wrote: post #213
ctur wrote: post #56

I wrote this in an email turning down a chance explore opportunities at Coinbase. > To me, diversity and social justice are critically important. I have the luxury of being selective in where I put my time and energy and it is important those values align with my career. I appreciate aspects of being "mission focused" but I think that there is a gulf between my personal values and Coinbase's values such that I would…

Considering Coinbase isn't seeing any attrition above normal for tech and isn't having issues recruiting, I think nobody really cares. Also, if you're white and claim diversity and social justice to be "critically important" then why don't you give up your job so that a minority can take it?

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