Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately

• favoredponcho@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  From Wikipedia:

  In 2019, Powell suggested that parenting was a distraction to being productive and critiqued the economic viability of parental leaves; he went on to question whether choosing to not abide by relevant governmental regulations was a risk worth taking.[40] In June 2022, Powell urged employees in a work meeting to reject the usage of preferred gender pronouns; he then opened a Slack channel to debate whether people should be allowed to choose their gender but not their race or ethnicity.[7] The next day, Kraken released a “culture document” which outlined the libertarian values that it asserted were to be obeyed at work.[7] Among other things, employees were prohibited from labelling others’ comments as “toxic, hateful, racist”, etc., and particular emphasis was assigned on how “offensiveness” was not forbidden.[7] Powell and his fellow executives encouraged employees who disagreed with the policy to quit, and offered four months’ severance for those who opted to do so.

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  • enbipanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks!

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• IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I heard he doesn’t return his trolley

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