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How can you possibly claim to separate ethics from politics in a work context? The two are hopelessly intertwined.



Ethics in the workplace is about your behavior while carrying out your job duties. For instance: lying to a customer to make a sale and hit your quota is unethical.

Politics and ethics can intersect, for instance, if you are writing some graphics software and someone realizes it would make a great missle guidance system. Some people might feel that's perfectly patriotic and be happy to provide it to the DoD; others might never want to work on a weapon. Political opinions lead to divergent ethical codes.

But here with Coinbase it doesn't seem to be an intersection at all. It's unethical regardless of political persuasion.




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