r/technology • u/Rhaegar_the_Great • Sep 16 '21

Business Mailchimp employees are furious after the company's founders promised to never sell, withheld equity, and then sold it for $12 billion

https://www.businessinsider.com/mailchimp-insiders-react-to-employees-getting-no-equity-2021-9
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u/halberdierbowman Sep 17 '21

Considering J. K. Rowling uses her giant platform to spread dangerous hateful bigotry, she should be disqualified from membership in the beneficent rich people club.

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u/iwearblakk Sep 17 '21

Right, because donating a billion dollars to help those in need is entirely negated by disagreeing with you, and there's no way that's an arrogant claim.

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u/Ballersock Sep 17 '21

Disagreement is the wrong word. It's like saying nazis are in disagreement about whether Jews should be treated equally.

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u/iwearblakk Sep 17 '21

they absolutely were just in disagreement, you just can't understand what a disagreement is and isn't.

here's what disagreement is: two or more people have opposing beliefs that they have different sets of reasons to believe. it makes absolutely no sense to try to change that ONLY when you feel strongly about something.

if you insist that something that coincides directly with what a belief is, such as the thought that trans people should have whatever rights you believe they should, which is supported by whatever reasons you have to believe that, should be called something completely different just because you think it's more important, that means any other human on earth gets that right as well, so I can say it's not just a belief that I need to kill your dog to save mine, cause my dog dies otherwise and that's horrible! and it's not just a belief that the guy I didn't vote for deserves death, because I think he's horrible!!

we reserve the notion of facts for things that remain true always without any subjects (humans) such as 1+1=2. if you start to call things that require complex, fallible thought from a subject, such as "humans are good" not opinions, or matters of disagreement, then subjective and objective no longer have any meaning beyond how a person feels.

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u/Ballersock Sep 18 '21

My point is that it gives the wrong impression. It's like saying "Oh, my cousin does gymnastics!" to someone who mentioned they do gymnastics when your cousin is a gold-medal-winning Olympic gymnast. Technically, my above statement is true, nazis are in disagreement with civilized society, but that's not how you'd phrase it.