Regarding recent events in the games industry: Being unpleasant on social media shouldn't get you fired. But then, having repulsive opinions shouldn't get you fired either. Supporting workers' rights means supporting them all of the time, not just when it's convenient.
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Replying to @Jonathan_Blow
I think that culture is more determined by material relations that the other way around. The current oversensitivity is in part a reflection of precarity and a feeling of constant threat that permeates society, especially given that we have replaced the economic with the cultural
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Replying to @JonasKyratzes @Jonathan_Blow
Personally, I would like to know to what extent companies are actually just misguided in firing people in these scenarios, even if they are assumed to be purely self-interested. Have they actually tried just _not_? Do they even know that it is in their best interest to do so?
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I mean there's one of these controversies every day now - I feel like in a month, nobody's going to remember which ArenaNET people they were mad at or why, and then those two folks can just keep their jobs and everything goes back to normal. Is it really not that simple?
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Either way, I think a law that said that a company can't fire an employee for actions that occurred outside the workplace would be a pretty great law. Keep workplace matters under company jurisdiction, and extra-workplace matters under purely police jurisdiction, full stop.
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