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.
It’s never too late to develop class consciousness, clueless tech bros.
Edit to add: Dollars to donuts, the people still putting up with Musk’s shit at 𝕏itter are the H-1B workers just trying to survive without getting deported. Two years ago: Why foreign workers in the US are especially vulnerable to the Twitter turmoil
Earlier this week, Elon Musk gave remaining staff an ultimatum to commit to working “hardcore” or to leave. But some staff who would like to leave the company feel like they can’t because doing so, may leave them no choice but to depart the US, multiple former Twitter employees told CNN.
The Muskrat wants cheap engineers that will work like China’s 9-9-6.
Well he saw that the only people willing to work at Twitter were extremely desperate to stay in the country
Right-Wing bootlickers continue to learn they aren’t in the in-crowd they desperately seek to join.
H1B Visa for me, none for thee
I thought AI meant we didn’t need all these tech workers? /s
It’s crazy that these politicians can just make wild claims without providing a shred of evidence. The just get to “dismiss.”
Stop that, please.
Musk is not a politician.
Do not normalize this by even referring to him as such. He has never held elected office.
He’s an oligarch interfering in politics. That makes him a politician, as well as an asshole.
Musk is not a politician.
So, why is he the one giving orders to Veep Donold?
The guy is absolutely an unelected politician. He’s Trump’s puppeteer and will be using his money to get what he wants.
He’s more than qualified. All you need to be a politician in America is capital. The actual law is typically sidestepped in favor of monetary gain. How is this any different than our usual goings-on? This is the most American thing that’s happened in years.
You’re still pretending the law and constitution mean a damn thing in practice. They’re gonna roll it up and smoke it next year.
But I thought we wanted to deport people, not import them.
Please reference this simple chart:
Let’s see where the imports are from. I have a feeling those who would accept bottom-tier wages will be the preferred import. I’m not blaming the workers, either. They will be sadly surprised by COL.
Honestly, this chart wouldn’t be acceptable for the most part.
Get the brown skinned engineers over here, but then threaten to deport them once they’re here. Easier to control and pay less. As is the way with every asshole regime.
Better yet, arrest them when their visa is mysteriously revoked for illegal immigration, then you don’t have to pay them at all!
This is what’s causing backlash? Not any of the Nazi shit?
Because this goes against the Nazi shit.
Hindu nationalists are about to be very, very surprised at what the Nazis actually think about their actual “Aryan” heritage.
Wait are there Indians that voted for Trump to get rid of immigrants?
There’s always going to be ladder pullers but yeah
Most Indian Americans know what’s going on but there’s always that weird subset that wants to bring caste shit with them and such.
People can be mad about two things. Don’t let a baity headline inform your views.
Well, in this case it’s among the people who really like him. So while people can be mad about two things, in this case I don’t think the people being discussed are.
LOL - surely the billionaire is going to be concerned about the plight of the American worker!?
The same guy that bought, then gutted, Xitter? Demanded people send him CODE for him to REVIEW?
I have some bad news for self-styled “Libertarians” that are also engineers…
It’s the immigrants taking your jerbs…no wait not those.
Ya’ll are not reading between the lines here.
“The number of people who are super talented engineers AND super motivated in the USA is far too low,”
The “AND super-motivated [sic]” is key here. By “super-motivated” he means working 80-100 hours for shit pay.
Yeah, both American citizens and H1Bs area getting tired of this shit.
On another vein, his government “positions” listing
“We need super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting.” for “zero pay”.
Is code for, “I want corporate lackies for this job.” Corporations will pay it’s reps to “work” in these government positions and basically lobby. No one else will bother because normal people got mouths to feed.
Almost all of the HB-1 sponsors in my workplace are making 100k+. That may be lower than the average pay for that position in some cases, but it’s definitely not starving anyone.
It’s not really “between the lines” when he’s been straight up shouting exactly that for years. He’s been very vocal about it at least since he bought Twitter, “keeping only the most talented ones who really want to work” and it turned out that only the immigrants who can’t AFFORD to leave stayed for shit pay.
Another fun thing about H1B holders is that, in their home countries, there are often kickbacks and indenture schemes that mean that they’re spending the first year of their working life in the US paying back someone for “arranging” the work. So if they quit, they’re in debt to the mob, and if they don’t return, their families are at risk.
I’d love to see the entire program scrapped. It’s such bullshit, and always has been. If there is some real talent that is just somehow so rare it cannot be found here, then give people full citizenship after they’ve been scouted for and found. With absolutely ZERO strings attached to any company. If they are so very rare and such high caliber that Americans are somehow lacking, then why on Earth wouldn’t we want them to STAY here and thrive and contribute long-term to this country? Hell, they might even found a company or two…
Instead, we have them stay here six years max on the H-1B and paid less than Americans. WTF? I thought these people are so sought after and so rare, etc…we are going to send them away after six years?
Scrapping the whole system would force us to finally fix our education system and stop intentionally raising unskilled people who leave college with $100k of debt and are still unqualified for a job.
Thank you
Musk is currently fighting with Laura Loomer over this and even pretended to be someone else in order to argue with her over Twitter Spaces and it is very, very funny to watch.
christ it should be a rule to never post links to sites that require accounts or logins when sharing information about a discussion without also providing screenshots or a non-account mirror.
Not sure if there is something better…
Christ, it should be a rule never to be this pissy with people sharing information. Here’s a screenshot. Of an audio post. Not sure how much help that’s going to be, so I guess you can just read about it on Mediaite or Raw Story in a few days.
Christ, it should be a rule that you post the transcript from a professional stenographer of any audio clips that get posted from a site with mandatory logins.
Too late now. Going to be stuck with him for a long time.
I don’t know. I think the way he’s alienating people, sooner or later he’s going to annoy the wrong person and end up finding himself falling out a window.
Just a thought. An observation, not a prediction or a threat.
Yeah he proved that he basically bank rolls many GOP members and without being elected anywhere he was able to pull the shut down stunt. He is ingrained into this campaign no matter what.
Globalism for me but not for thee
CEOs man…
