The state of politics today, as a base layer under and inside everything, is such that politics cannot be kept out of work. Look at something very straightforwa

The state of politics today, as a base layer under and inside everything, is such that politics cannot be kept out of work. Look at something very straightforward like Covid-19, an airborne disease. For reasons that I can't explain, attitudes towards this virus in the US are political, such that there is a strong correlation between one's view of the severity of this virus and one's attitudes towards the legal status of abortion. A company deciding between "everyone work from home" or "everyone come into the office and sit in open seating" has to engage with the realities of what the virus is, which necessitates taking a stand on issues which are political. This is doubly impossible for Coinbase since cryptocurrency is the most overtly political area of technology.