Coinbase is a deeply political company already. Here are some political claims that they support that are not universally agreed upon: - Cryptocurrencies are g

Coinbase is a deeply political company already. Here are some political claims that they support that are not universally agreed upon: - Cryptocurrencies are good and should be legal. - Private ownership of unrestricted amounts of capital is good. - Central banks controlling the money supply are bad. - The ability to send and receive money across borders and avoid capital controls is, in general, good. - The existence of corporations is good. - Venture capital is good, as is making money for the stock exchange. - Reporting large amounts of customer information to federal tax agencies is bad and should be fought in court. - Spying on individuals on behalf of governments with poor human rights records is bad, and moreover, having supported this work makes you ineligible to be an employee. (This is new as of March 2019; previously, the company did not have a position here.) Now, these are entirely reasonable positions to take (in the sense that they're well within the Overton window, at least in the US), but they're absolutely political positions! (If it helps, note that the negation of all of these is a political claim.) I'd understand the argument if it's something like "I don't want my company to mandate that I support expanded bike lanes on Market St." or whatever, but it's very silly to pretend that a company doesn't have a mission in the world or that its mission doesn't have political aspects. If you don't agree that cryptocurrency is making a positive difference in the world, why are you even there? (And even so, I think it would be entirely rational for the company to say, "It's okay if individual employees disagree, but as a company, expanded bike lanes on Market St. is important to our business because it's how half the company commutes to work.")