Shopify’s founder and their coo both fund far-right extremism, and its founder thinks only rich people should be able to vote. But anyway, they switched databases.
The link you shared is just a podcast and does not contain even contain “far right”. Can you provide specific concerns, otherwise I don’t see anything wrong with a CEO of the most successful tech company should not be concerned about a horribly performing country from a GDP perspective.
The problem he was reacting to (local decisions dominated by people with locked-in benefits and low future exposure) is real. His idea there is silly but I think treating a couple of provocative X replies as some far right agenda is its own kind of overreach.
> The problem he was reacting to (local decisions dominated by people with locked-in benefits and low future exposure) is real
So like, idk, people over 60yrs old voting against climate action? Or maybe people making over $500k/year voting against a social safety net?
Those seem like far more consequential groups exerting influence than the very poor (who as a demographic don’t actually vote much anyway).
But anyway, whatever group you’re talking about disenfranchising, the fact that you’re talking about disenfranchising anybody makes you an enemy of democracy.
I included a link to a podcast because that's a good high level overview of the topic. If you want to dig into it further, the podcast episode page I linked to has links to more reporting and plenty of keywords you can type into google.com if that's not enough.
Anyway, if you think a country having a low gdp per capita is how you measure if it should suspend voting rights for disabled people and stay at home parents, then I suspect you're not actually reading any of this.
Yeah it's an awful place to work unless you're a far-right bro. My old director used to use slurs and vape in the office. The founder hires pro gamers with no technical expertise because he thinks they're cool.
Because "slurs" is vague and covers a wide variety of utterances that run the gamut from unprofessional to unemployable and I had a tingle of Spidey sense that OP might have chosen the vague phrasing specifically to inflate the sins of the nameless Shopify director in the mind of the reader.
Great question. It's a vague term and a moving target that not everyone agrees on.
For instance, retarded is now considered a slur. If OP is saying "my director said the R word," then I would question whether OP spared the gory details out of concern for polite company or if they're being oblique in service of their point.
And if managers at Shopify are dropping N-bombs, I want to know that too.
https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/340_shopifys_leaders_are...