No I'm not missing any point. You are making up a point that has absolutely nothing to do with the actual situation at Coinbase.
The political debate at Coinbase was never about "safety net" at all. It's about petty identity politics. You are trying to make the discussion about "safety net" when that discussion has nothing to do about "safety net" at first place.
What do employees demanding a company makes a statement about "Black Live Matters" or "Free Palestine" has to do with "safety net"? Absolutely nothing.
We're talking about US Tech workers here, which are already well compensated by their employer.
Black Lives Matters is important because companies discriminate against black people and there is police discrimination and brutality against black people and whoever the police deem undesirable in the US, not just in one or two regions, but in every sizeable city in the US. So it's hard to see your friends discriminated against and employers (the only entity with enough political power to effect change in the us) making the problems worse. And amazon and other tech companies fund city council seats and fuel tons of money to defeat referendums that hurt their profit. Yes, ideally politics would be fought over outside the corporate sphere but due to politicians mostly only listening to corporations in the US at the federal and city level, that isn't possible.
The political debate at Coinbase was never about "safety net" at all. It's about petty identity politics. You are trying to make the discussion about "safety net" when that discussion has nothing to do about "safety net" at first place.
What do employees demanding a company makes a statement about "Black Live Matters" or "Free Palestine" has to do with "safety net"? Absolutely nothing.
We're talking about US Tech workers here, which are already well compensated by their employer.