Trump said not to trust Vivek during the election season.
The whole H1B situation is exposing Vivek as a Pro India first guy.
JD's wife is Indian as well.
People are also mad at Elon as well.
Could this also be a white hat exposure operation?
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Doubtful.
Just different priorities and perspectives.
Elon needs talented engineers to further his empire. He is correct in regards to the need to import them as we don't have enough in this country to fill demand.
However, he needs to acknowledge and propose solutions for the problem of companies hiring immigrant engineers instead of qualified American engineers due to the financial compensation and employment control advantages. No qualified American engineer should lose out on a job because a company wants to take advantage of lower pay and complete control over that person's employment (If you're on an H-1B visa, you're tied to the company that brought you over).
That shit needs to end immediately.
To say nothing of laying off American technical people in favor of hiring cheap technical labor in India. There needs to be a prohibitively hefty price for doing so.
Qualifications are also downstream from everything else.
What decides your qualifications? Education on paper and work experience are a good start. When you're dealing with rocketry as an example, you're not going to get any form of apprenticeship to train you, you're not going to be seen based on personality or a willingness to work like you can be in other sectors.
So, say further education gets denied. Say you get denied a scholarship for a good school because the quota for your background/race/sex/sexuality was filled already.
Say you are denied jobs that would allow you to show your skill and eagerness to work within your field because of that same quota.
Now you have people who may have been qualified, but miss out on the opportunity because less qualified people were given those opportunities. But those people can't scrape by in any meritocracy, so now they search for cheaper labor where quotas like these don't exist.
A hell of a lot of things start with DEI initiatives. We need to abolish any fashion of "protected class" and we need to ban quotas, and people need to be able to successfully sue if they're discriminated against.
They dont need people to scrape by. They dont need normal people that rely on things being fair and equitable. They want/need motherfuckers that can blow the competition away in the areas of innovation and willingness to work longer and harder with less demands. People that make billions make billions by exploiting labor and cutting costs.
The whole thing feels like a big miscommunication error. Even the backlash seems reactionary than their own perspective. Alot of Pro MAGA talking heads are taking things out of context and running with it.
I definitely agree Elon has a completely different criteria when it comes to his own companies compared to companies like Boeing or Ford. There will always be Americans who can fit that criteria. Just don’t expect every American with an engineering degree to hit that mark.
Focus should still be teaching Kids interested in Stem fields no matter how long it takes. Also foster their ability to innovate.
We have to also fix the issue that is causing the constant hiring and firing from companies. The company you start off with might have a different set of people by the time you leave. Let alone if you're even employed for that long.
Could not agree more, CC. Zero nuance to the conversations happening on X right now.
As you said, a big part of this conversation should be about fostering more Americans to get STEM degrees.
But we've got to fix the H-1B mess AND this approach of American tech companies treating workers like they're potato chips that can just be tossed on the floor, then reach into the bag to grab more.
It's a disappointingly black & white conversation that's happening right now.
He doesn't need to import them he just needs to open a branch office in Mumbai or wherever and hire them there. Or quit doing it and start hiring American kids who need jobs and a future