I remember when people started boycotting Dropbox in an effort to remove Condoleezza Rice from the board because of her position on the Iraq war. Eich was fired for supporting Prop 8. The perspective of “well he’d still be powerful” doesn’t matter
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Yup. I hear about this inside of Google and fb.
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What were the beliefs they felt they couldn’t articulate? (Being clear, these may or may not be your own.)
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Off the top of my head: the proper role of the FDA, opinions on tax reform, immigration law and H1Bs, healthcare, actions taken by the CFPB, how to treat biomed samples of transgender people in a data set, and probably 100x more that I don’t know about.
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Well, I’d say these people are pretty inarticulate. I’m obviously a progressive but can construct a counterargument on any of these in 10 minutes. But (e.g.) “some people should die from treatable disease because they are poor” is always gonna engender criticism.
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You’d say people are inarticulate because they fear repurcussions of speaking out? That’s an incredibly arrogant thing to say
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Maybe. But aren’t these guys saying they’re at YC on the merits of their skills and talents being extraordinary?
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I’m not sure they’re saying that, but if these guys and gals are inarticulate than I don’t know many people anywhere qualify as articulate
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So I guess it boils down to substance. “We should limit H1Bs in favor of retraining unemployed domestic workers” might get disagreement, but “build the wall!” will get vociferous pushback. That seems reasonable?
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Sure. Though there may be rational and reasonable reasons to build a wall, I just can’t think of any so I’m not going to pretend and defend that for argument sake. Healthcare is an interesting one though, because there are trade offs no matter what you do
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Degree in political science and MBA here - and I don't hide my politics: to feel strong enough to speak out, you gotta be strong and able and willing to walk away - from partners, social groups, your employer, etc... You're unlikely to change reality by complaining about it.
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