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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Anything is on the table at this point. Regardless, that was a really stupid comment he made.
(What I'm referring to)
I don't fully disagree with his statement, but it is a bad statement for someone with political and specifically presidential aspirations.
There are definitely a lot of culture issues in the U.S., and with how our school system has completely been dismantled in favor of DEI and social agendas it has definitely ruined a lot of what made American ingenuity and work ethic strong.
More to the point, we've become so focused on memes -- so indescribably focused on memes that so many bright minds seem to be focused on being "witty" and "snarky" now.
There are definitely a lot of problems...but that's what we're trying to fix, and someone with presidential aspirations should understand that.
Vivek's allowed to be wrong, or he's allowed to have a misguided opinion. I'm not prepared to verbally slaughter him for that, because I also think it's being magnified too much.
But it does mean that he would not be so easy to support in the future for a presidential candidate.
As for Vance..It doesn't matter that his wife is Indian. That doesn't mean he's suddenly India First. Why attack Vance for the words of Vivek? That's lunacy.
From Elon's point of view, he wants to be able to hire the best minds from anywhere. That's just cutting edge business, and he needs the ability to have cutting edge labor. You can't just train people in a short time for physics. That's something that takes a lot of dedication, time and passion that they have to have outside of their work hours...which is another cultural problem America has right now.
One has to separate Elon and Vivek because Vivek ran for President, and Elon literally cannot. We must assume Vivek has future aspirations as well, and therefore a greater scrutiny should be applied there.
You made a great comment, and I must say that you are 100% right about America having cultural issues. But, you can try to fix that without bringing in infinite immigrants. Which is why I am confused that Vivek would even make that comment.
It’ll take time. Potentially years if not several decades until we culturally and socially regain our footing and sense of self.
And for Corporations and Business interests. That isn’t time they want to spend. Even if it’ll ultimately be beneficial long term.
American, and to a lesser extent Western Corporate Models in general have largely transitioned into prioritizing the short term. In pursuit of profits and shareholder returns.
Which is why we’ve entered a revolving door of companies including former household names going bust. Or entering dire financial straits.
It wasn’t simply DEI. Though that undoubtedly didn’t help. There’s been a few decades of over expansion, mergers that probably shouldn’t have happened, and poor business decisions. The DEI was just the final nail.
Corporate executives in America today generally need an MBA to advance to the top of their corporate ladders.
Those business schools have been taken over, just like the journalism schools, medical schools, law schools, etc.
They teach a woke agenda and a "profits now at any cost" mentality.
This is why they all run the big corporations the same -- territble customer service, lesser quality products, and DEI, etc.
That is one of the big problems that nobody is talking about.
And because they've all been trained the same, they don't understand the problem. A fish does not know it is in water ...
I agree it's not just DEI, but DEI impacts everything from schooling (and grooming) as well as hiring practices (what spawned this whole thing with "angry dad" -- although I have a problem with people thinking that someone named "suspended1233" wasn't just trying to stir a pot and then deactivate for exactly the effect that is happening, e.g. stringing Elon up for banning him.)
DEI can prevent bright people from even getting further in their education, because that's what "equity" does. It brings everyone else down to try and raise others up, which helps prevent the best from standing out.
Without that, consolidation is easy. Consolidation through cheap labor from other countries even easier. No ability to compete.
Correct, it will take time. I have fewer issues with H1Bs I'd say than all of our manufacturing being overseas. At least if we had that, we'd be more resistant.