On: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

[BitwiseFool]

>"a society governed in large part by the free market"

I disagree and have a much more simple explanation. Activists naturally want to involve as many people as they can in their cause/struggle. By framing everything as political, they open up opportunities to proselytize in areas traditionally not appropriate for 'politics'.

If you couple that with a cultural expectation that people must take a side, and, that simply not being a [bad thing] is not enough, you must be actively anti-[bad thing], and you've got the current climate Brian Armstrong is trying to avoid.

[tptacek → BitwiseFool]

That's how it's supposed to work. If you're a team member and don't agree with the proselytizers, you don't add your market power to theirs.

[Nimitz14 → BitwiseFool]

Of course. It's a classic technique of totalitarianism seen in both Nazi Germany and Stalin's USSR.