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Conversational account. For work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. IKEA builder.

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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 28
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    Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Brian Armstrong

    This was inevitable. It’s already the de facto direction in most companies. Nobody can seriously run an already high-risk business while also seriously pursuing a big tent political agenda of any sort. And energy wasted on political theater serves neither business nor politics.https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1310301482101563392 …

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    Brian ArmstrongVerified account @brian_armstrong
    https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-a-mission-focused-company-af882df8804 …
    10:30 PM - 28 Sep 2020
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    • Vishal Kapur David McDougall Matt 𝄞 𝄢 ♪ ♯ Eli Parra 🌊 Doug Sandlin Eugene Marinelli Roy 😷 Solairis ameen.eth
    5 replies 17 retweets 138 likes
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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 28
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        The backlash is inevitable too, but needs to be patiently weathered and outlasted. Increase tax dollars and solve political problems at political loci.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 28
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        Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Venkatesh Rao

        Cf:https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1277760202951897089?s=21 …

        Venkatesh Rao added,

        Venkatesh Rao @vgr
        Culture war wrangling has unfortunately become a key element in my consulting. It is now the 4th, and youngest manifestation of bullshit jobs. Bullshit jobs evolve in one of 4 ways: automation, outsourcing, trumpification, and now: wokification. Only the first 2 are survivable
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      4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 28
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        The employee energy behind this stuff is 90% cluelessness about the real cost of serious political action and 10% bad-faith grifting that’s fine with destroying valuable businesses in pursuit of political careerism. Kill-the-host parasitism.

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      5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 28
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        There’s really only one kind of political action that belongs within business missions: climate action. And that’s because states simply lack both the knowledge and agency to decarbonize complex technological systems. Everything else is a drag that businesses are bad at.

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      6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 28
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        I’m a pretty narrow climate hawk. Big tent actions around carbon don’t work. But narrow efforts have a shot. If your business is high carbon, work on that. Otherwise get on with building wealth and minimizing negative externalities. You don’t have to be a saint, OR an asshole.

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      7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 28
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        So trawling through the backstory this appears to be about a threatened walkout over wanting the company to issue a statement over George Floyd. Personally I suspect coerced business PR statements are probably a net negative for such events. Theater replacing meaningful action.

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      8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 28
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        The scope creep of such social responsibility only ever goes up, never down. And because it solve the actual problem , it’s an accumulating deadweight loss tax. In heavily regulated economies this leads to social/political staffing bloat. In competitive ones, it kills companies.

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      9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 28
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        Businesses are not the tools for solving most political problems. Tax them more, solve problems with tax $. Flip the economics. If you had a million dollars to address structural injustice in policing, would you use it to fund tax breaks to companies in return for PR statements??

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      10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 28
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        Typo: should be “...because it *doesn’t* solve...” 2 tweets up

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      2. Kevin Riggle‏ @kevinriggle Sep 28
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        I dunno, as a customer, I sure wish that this guy whose company operates a platform for transacting with a system that is regularly used to fund terrorism would speak out against domestic terrorism

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      3. Kevin Riggle‏ @kevinriggle Sep 28
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        Like Coinbase have actually done a pretty decent job as far as I can tell of keeping both foreign and domestic terrorism funding off their platform, I don't have a complaint there, but it's not out of ambit to expect them to reiterate their commitment to that work

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