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This seems incredibly abusive and inappropriate. Just like it was in 2012 when business owners where pressuring people to vote for Mitt Romney. This article la

This seems incredibly abusive and inappropriate. Just like it was in 2012 when business owners where pressuring people to vote for Mitt Romney. This article lays out a pretty solid case for why politics should be kept out of business. https://www.epi.org/publication/unwise-employers-directing-workers-votes/ https://www.epi.org/publication/unwise-employers-directing-w...

wilg 6y ago
That article is about why employers shouldn't tell their employees who to vote for. This is telling their customers who to vote for. And even then the context matters I think.
- Claudus 6y ago
  Actually, the email was directed at US citizens, which I believe includes most if not all of Expensify's employees (which were all in the loop on this, if you read the CEO's twitter comments). As is stated in the opening paragraph: "If you are a US citizen, anything less than a vote for Biden is a vote against democracy." If the leadership of a company is willing to send an email like this to all of their customers, it doesn't seem unreasonable to believe that the employees are being influenced, which is the core component of that article: When the Founders set about designing the world’s first democracy, they were particularly concerned that employees might be subject to the undue influence of those who controlled their economic fate. “In the main,” Alexander Hamilton warned, “power over a man’s support is power over his will.” Constitutional author Gouverneur Morris likewise worried that those who “receive their bread from their employer” would be pressured to “sell [their votes] to the rich.”
jakelazaroff 6y ago
> This article lays out a pretty solid case for why politics should be kept out of business. Just curious — do you also oppose lobbying, and private businesses working with police/military/etc? In the scheme of “politics at work”, this is much less egregious than, say, Microsoft’s DoD contract or Google’s campaign contributions.

wilg 6y ago

That article is about why employers shouldn't tell their employees who to vote for. This is telling their customers who to vote for. And even then the context matters I think.

Claudus 6y ago
Actually, the email was directed at US citizens, which I believe includes most if not all of Expensify's employees (which were all in the loop on this, if you read the CEO's twitter comments). As is stated in the opening paragraph: "If you are a US citizen, anything less than a vote for Biden is a vote against democracy." If the leadership of a company is willing to send an email like this to all of their customers, it doesn't seem unreasonable to believe that the employees are being influenced, which is the core component of that article: When the Founders set about designing the world’s first democracy, they were particularly concerned that employees might be subject to the undue influence of those who controlled their economic fate. “In the main,” Alexander Hamilton warned, “power over a man’s support is power over his will.” Constitutional author Gouverneur Morris likewise worried that those who “receive their bread from their employer” would be pressured to “sell [their votes] to the rich.”

jakelazaroff 6y ago

> This article lays out a pretty solid case for why politics should be kept out of business. Just curious — do you also oppose lobbying, and private businesses working with police/military/etc? In the scheme of “politics at work”, this is much less egregious than, say, Microsoft’s DoD contract or Google’s campaign contributions.