Musk seems to think countries are sports teams
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This is why the New York Yankees win the world series every year. And Manchester United always wins the Premier League.
They also cut dead weight which is impossible here, and dynasties are largely dead anymore because contracts shuffle players/ coaches like trading cards. If we’re going to mass import diploma mill engineers from India we’re fucked. Indians are insanely nepotistic and will always be pushing for more Indians immigrants. There’s no understanding of American history or culture by the overwhelming majority, they simply see access to capital and a way out of India.
Professional sports teams also tend to have zero players from their hometowns. Even the White players are mercenaries playing with loyalty only to the highest bidder (or are locked into indentured servitude at relatively low wages for the first years of their careers).
There's the longstanding pejorative that pro sports is simply "cheering for laundry".
The players rarely live in the city's they represent and often flee the very second their season end's and their contractual obligations are over.
It's an absolute dystopian model for "winning", nation building, cultural preservation, etc.
The Los Angeles Dodgers just won the World Series by doing exactly this.
Their opponent? The New York Yankees.