Summary
Elon Musk faced backlash from his followers on X after advocating for importing “super talented engineers” to address a shortage in the U.S. tech industry.
Musk likened hiring top foreign talent to building a championship sports team and argues that there is a shortage of talented and motivated American engineers.
Critics argued there’s sufficient U.S. talent being overlooked or underpaid, with some pointing to widespread tech layoffs.
Musk dismissed claims of low wages or training gaps, maintaining a need for exceptional engineering talent to advance innovation.
I was browsing reddit and the liberal side of it from politics to bpt and cscareers and I love how they’re getting redpilled on Indians and immigration. It seems they finally care when the jobs are personally affecting them. Liberals in their ivory tower are finally getting to smell what they sowed.
You hate immigrants because you’re a racist
They hate H1B immigration because it allows people like Elon to freely set up sweatshops of smart immigrants who have built a home in this country and now have their chance to keep living in that home tied to the random whims of a billionaire.
Not the same.
The H1B system in concept is great but it’s ripe for abuse by men like Elon. One I’m aware of is that paperwork is way behind on the gov side and it’s kind of a lottery (will our coworker be here in the fall? Let’s spin the wheel!). Another is that larger companies can from what I understand put in a request for many more spots than they need and since it’s a lottery be fairly confident they’ll get the spots they really wanted, while small companies have to suffer at the whims of chance. And I’m no expert on this but I’d say another key area that sucks is its just a bizarre design by committee system. As Americans we want to steal other countries best and brightest and H1B is like a DMV version of that goal.
