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Not doing business with a billionaire is not remotely comparable with actively preventing your (presumably non-billionaire) friend from getting a job. If you wa
by solipsism 10y ago
Not doing business with a billionaire is not remotely comparable with actively preventing your (presumably non-billionaire) friend from getting a job. If you want to engage with people about this in a reasonable way, you need to understand this.
- mc32 10y agoTo me it's fundamentally about political freedom and freedom of expression. I would state, that if I ran a company, ideally, I would run it so that so long as people didn't violate any applicable laws while "on duty" and didn't work to actively affect the company negatively (violate company policies), whatever they did outside the company was their business (be it robbing liquor stores, beating old ladies with batons, etc.) it's up to society, the police, etc., to deal with extra-work activities of such person not me. I am simply renting their time to do a job --I'm not hiring them to impart my morality on them. I don't "own" them. They don't have to fit in "culturally". Here's the thing. People are all for these freedoms up until they think it's going to affect them in a way they don't want. Lots of people supported WikiLeaks ....till it looked like WikiLeaks would do things counter to their cause... So, people believe in their beliefs and support things based on their belief systems rather than the concepts of freedom of expression and political freedom, unfortunately.
- solipsism 10y agoHere you go again. Thiel didn't get fired. Do you not get that power dynamics matter? Firing someone for their politics is different from not doing business with them. Regardless, your "anyone who disagrees with me must be a hypocrite" approach to things is pretty shitty.