Let’s wrap up: Trade Republic staged a fake protest to promote a new product, they asked the workers to expose themselves and do stuff outside of their normal tasks, gave them fake slogans and signs, and then bragged about it on social media.

Obviously, the workers weren’t enthusiastic about it. Most played along. Some are naive tech-bros, so they saw no problem with the request from the management. I also think this goes against their contract, but whatever.

Obviously, the signs contained a list of pre-selected slogans provided by the company. This is where the cringe peaks: the soulless copywriting of start-up no-lifers tries to imitate the creativity of spontaneous political action, with disastrous results.

Now, let’s get to the cringe: last week the company organized a fake protest in front of their offices. The protest was supposed to be about financial freedom, freedom of trading, a confused reformation of the pension system, and other 1984 “Freedom is Slavery” kind of claims.

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