Well ac'shually in normal philosophical use "consequentialism" means the morality of an action depending only on the consequences of that action. And that is a much more controversial (and IMNSHO wrong) proposition.
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In English: startup, the: Early stage company with allegedly high growth potential offering equity instead of cash, based on the idea that will be a good deal if it really takes off.
In German: Startup, das: Small tech-company, usually Berlin-based, hipster culture, offering coolness and alleged skill development instead of cash, also fruit baskets and tabletop football.
Of course the glamour of a German Startup is heavily based on equivocation between those two concepts.
My translation of the relevant paragraphs:
The elected body stood "against almost all values we believe in at N26", it [the e-mail] says. And: "Drive: It makes us slower. Simplicity: It makes our cooperation more compley and hirarchical. Integrity: It undermines a culture of trust and could lead to a hightend level of confrontation. Excellence: It is not an up-to-date instrument of employee mangment and limits personal career development and influence."
Morover, according to the e-mails argumentation, a work council would lead to a two-class society for employees, because it is responsible only for German employees. A world-wide "Employee Representation Board" is named as an alternative proposal.
Back to me: Proposing a not-legally-a-work-council is a standard trick of German union busters. The real point is, of course, that the alternative board doesn't have the rights and protections of a real one. Also, looking at their Kununu reviews (I think that is a cultural equivalent of Glassdoor, though the focus is more on soft factors than money) they actually seem like the kind of work-place one would urgently want to found a work council at. So nah, not much chance of that being at all about genuine care for non-German employees.
Almost 20 years ago I wrote some Excel macros on an even then ancient Windows 3.1 computer with German Excel. I tried for Hungarian notation (as I said, almost 20 years ago) and used d for date. So the end date of some range was dEnde. D is also the first letter of Datei, which is German for file. So when I brought the Document to the boss's newer computer the program got translated but all the variables still had German names except for dEnde, which turned into EOF.