Musk seems to think countries are sports teams
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Elon is a futurist. Everything good about him is motivated by that singular driving motivation, and so is everything bad about him. He hates woke because he (correctly) believes it stifles innovation and competition and thereby retards human progress. He hates government inefficiency and high taxes for the same reason. He likes the American way of doing things and he fought for free speech and the open marketplace of ideas because he (again, correctly) believes that approach to be the most conducive to technological innovation and progress. He wants skilled immigrants so he can enlist their talents in building his cybertopia.
To figure out what Elon's position will be on any given issue, all you have to ask is "Will this help us get to Mars?"
The issue is that he says this—and he may even believe it—but the way that’s manifesting right now is in going to bat for not just keeping, but expanding the H1B Visa program, and specifically going to bat for an Indian who explicitly wants the H1B program to allow in even more Indians. Which is about as far from “high skill” immigration, and as destructive to the social and economic fabric of the nation, as one can get.
Their position makes sense if you're wrong. Maybe the best Indians are the most benefit/cost employees a USA tech company can have. Maybe the stereotypes don't apply to the cream of the crop.
High there. I'm a highly skilled worker in a highly technical field. So unlike you I'm actually talking from experience instead of out my ass.
It's all of them. None of them are good employees and all of them are hygiene deficient what's more. They sleep, they steal, they jerk off in the bathroom and their sole priority is to infest companies with more of their kind. They are the only race more nepotistic than the goddamn Chinese. The one thing they don't do is work. The few I know, you could shoot them in the head and seal up their offices with concrete and the company would probably do better next quarter.
There is no cream. The whole crop is rotten.
Makes me feel better about vetoing an Indian candidate the one time I was given any measure of influence over a hiring decision for my team. The fucking accent alone was bad enough that I did not want that guy on our team no matter how good he was technically. If we cannot understand what our database administrator is even saying then there's going to be problems.