What's most disgusting about Sacks's comment is not celebrating the success of the Coinbase IPO. That's fine. A bunch of people who managed to get a piece of their equity had their lives change this week. That's not a bad thing, regardless of how shitty the leaders are.
Sacks is making a conscious decision to tie this to the political and cultural issues that Coinbase had been embroiled in. He's creating a false narrative where the "woke mob" was trying to stop this from happening. That was never true. And it is incredibly dishonest.
Brian Armstrong oppressed his workplace because he's an asshole. Not because he was afraid they wouldn't IPO. Not because they weren't doing their job of working to make him obscenely wealthy. It's because they wanted him to give a shit about other things and he just doesn't.
David Sacks is taking this opportunity to remind everybody that he doesn't give a shit either. Him and his buddies are going to keep doing whatever they need to in order to continue extracting wealth from all of us. And it doesn't matter what we want. They can just say no.
We have to start hearing and accepting the truth of these messages. We need to start investing in our own collective power and using it as a counter pressure to capitalistic oppression. That's the only thing that has ever worked. Besides guillotines of course.
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1) paying people to start home during a pandemic works
2) Businesses that try to stay open, in defiance of public safety mind you, are dependent on low wage labor. thedispatch.com/p/we-just-cant…
Something has been bothering me though. I do think there is a disconnect between giving relief to individuals, so they can stay home during a pandemic, and helping people's *businesses* survive the pandemic. We never figured out how to reconcile these.
I can't tell you how infuriating this kind of gaslighting is. It comes in lots of different flavors. but this combination of "it takes time" as though it hasn't been decades and decades and "you have a lousy attitude" as though I have to be "nice" in order to deserve to live.
This is a decent article that discusses not just Clubhouse's recent data leak, but the increasing prevalence of data leaks in tech products. threatpost.com/clubhouse-user…
This tweet from the above article kind of sums up the problem. It's not these companies are incompetent at security (though they might be). It's that they still don't agree that this data that they collect from us *should* be protected.
Here's what was leaked from CH:
"Names, user IDs, photo URL, number of followers, Twitter and Instagram handles, dates that accounts were created and even the profile information of who invited them to the app"
To those in power, Black protest is *synonymous* with anarchy. Y'all keep learning that. They're not subtle about it. How many times do y'all need to hear it?
I mean anarchy. Yes I know what it actually means. These folks aren't afraid of chaos. They create it on a daily basis. If you're gonna try to check me, please come prepared.
It's easy to get confused about where the critique is actually focused. It's a mistake to think that the problem with a riot is "chaos". Sure, that's the fear they sell to white people. And that is one aspect of the issue. But that is not what the powers that be are afraid of.
I'll say a few more words about this. Because I think there is a lot of work to do on the rift between individual contributors and middle managers. Those two groups should be working together to deal with issues that arise in the company.
As a manager, it can be tough when it feels like all people do is bring you problems and expect you to fix them. It feels draining, and you start to wonder if those people take any responsibility for the problems themselves.
It'll be pretty off the cuff. Aniyia and I don't really have time for these things to be planned. But we're willing to be fairly open about the lessons we've learned in our relationship.
Tune in if you're interested. We're gonna try twitter spaces. You can't really link to it. So watch my account and look for it at the top of the app where the "fleets" are.