[015a]

I'm not sorry for taking the opposite opinion, and its strictly for the reason that: these megacorps will, at the drop of a hat, spend millions in donations and lobbying for whatever causes their executives believe furthers the goals of the business [1]. "We the executives" are allowed to talk about it, and pay for what we believe is right, but "you the line workers", shut up, if you don't like it go work somewhere else.

If they want to stay out of politics, then do that. But its extremely difficult for modern businesses to not have a hand in politics. That's fine; and to some degree I respect the line companies like Coinbase walk, where they push agendas that are fairly directly related to their business. Meta goes far beyond that, into financing for (great and important!) issues like voter suppression & minority representation. If they're going to open the floodgates, they can't be uncomfortable when some murky water comes flooding in.

[1] https://about.facebook.com/facebook-political-engagement/

[duckmysick]

> I'm not sorry for taking the opposite opinion, and its strictly for the reason that: these megacorps will, at the drop of a hat, spend millions in donations and lobbying for whatever causes their executives believe furthers the goals of the business [1].

How would this apply in small businesses or businesses that don't engage in lobbying?

[bogantech]

> "We the executives" are allowed to talk about it, and pay for what we believe is right, but "you the line workers", shut up, if you don't like it go work somewhere else.

Yes because the line workers don't just discuss it they fight over it and make everyone angry / depressed and destroy productivity

[Volundr]

And the executives don't make people depressed and angry and destroy productivity?

[bogantech]

Not as much as people who don't stop screaming about <latest outrage> in slack all day every day. There's always something and it never stops

[Volundr]

I can't agree with this. I've never found disagreement between co-workers to have near the effect on moral as having some executive take the opportunity to lecture people about it in an all hands or make their personal opinion the official position of the company.