Musk verspricht „Krieg“ zum Schutz von H-1B-Visa und nennt einige Republikaner „Rassisten“

He just wants cheap labor.

Seeing the H1B visas at work, I have to say it does need a revamping.

I found it abused and a form of modern slavery. An extreme term, I know, but one that matches the moment in my mind.

In many cases it was all about profits over American labor, even when skills were abundantly available in the US.

they both want the same thing in principle. Musk wants captive wageslaves that he can fire and deport the second they complain, and the GOP has been fanatically anti-union and anti worker rights for decades. its just with MAGA there is no nuance. these are the guys who say anything crossing the border means we have open borders.

He will fight to the last drop of his blood (which is to say, he’ll spend a bunch of money and post a bunch on twitter) so he can maintain a large number of his employees in what is functionally indentured servitude.

I’d like to think the ‘America First’ side of MAGA, the ones who actually believed the rhetoric, may start waking up to the idea that they were useful idiots for billionaires who are resentful they can’t own serfs. But alas, if the past ten years or so couldn’t do that, I can’t imagine what would.

H1B visas as they currently work are indentured servants if they quit or get fired they get deported. They also work to suppress American workers by forcing them to compete with immigrants who under duress will access much lower wages and won’t complain.

What the USA should do is offer a more expansive H1B visa with better conditions and not so much employer protection at the expense of their immigrant workers.

We should also make immigrating a lot easier and make both illegal and legal immigration safe, affordable and just. The construction industry uses illegal immigrants much like Musk uses H1B visas to suppress wages and benefits of American workers to build things cheaply. Same with the farming industry. The meat processing industry and so on. If there’s a job that needs work there should be a universal standard that favors people over businesses.

Oh those are the immigrants stealing jobs I was talking about. Practically indentured servants keeping Twitter alive these days

And so it begins…..

They can’t stop shooting each other.

Hop aboard the clown car.

I’m not sue I have enough popcorn

Working in tech I never encountered what I felt was wage suppression by H1B. I worked a lot in the Midwest for a long time and we hardly ever got a decent US worker.

All that said I am beginning to see the problem better as my son is about to enter the field. He indicated as a lot have that they want entry level workers but with 5 years experience. Guess who doesn’t have that. College graduates. Guess who does. Foreign workers who may have already worked and then got a masters or willing to take entry level pay. And they can say they considered US candidates as well because who with 5 years experience is applying for entry level.

I have met and worked with a lot of really smart great people on H1B BTW. Nothing against them personally. This is about the Musks of this world not the workers.

I think we should absolutely play their game and instigate the shit out of this hysterical maga civil war

Now he notices? Definitely no genius.

I say put tariffs on US companies for not hiring US workers. If you’re going to run out the Hispanics might as well run out all the others too so we don’t leave anyone out just to be fair.

Or use something like the NFL does and make the company try to hire a US worker first before they are allowed to fill out a H1B visa.

US politicians and their war they love so much. Name a better combo

So imported goods from China that benefits everyone who shops at Wal-Mart BAD but Importing Technical high skilled labor that takes those good paying jobs and the demand for those jobs away from Americans BAD…….I dont see the logic.

you need engineers start paying them what their worth and more people will be attracted to that job, and very shortly you’ll get all the labor you need, its called supply and demand.

Last drop of blood he says..

Musk and Ramaswamy are pouring gasoline on the US student loan crisis — and are just making it that much worse.

Plus, there are so many H1-B recipients who have overstayed their visas — Tom Homan should add these people to the top of his list.

These tech “CEOs” merely want to dilute the wages of the American workforce.

Ramaswamy is what Trump calls an “anchor baby”; his mother wasn’t a US citizen when he was born and his baby daddy still isn’t a US citizen.

Raise Musk and Ramaswamy’s taxes 10-fold until they start singing the red, white, and blue

What a very worn out move…Interesting to hear a recipient of apartheid’s riches call US citizens racists.

Maybe Musk should be championing equal opportunities for American minorities in high tech instead.

He and Vivek are the likely Racists, although Vivek hasn’t come out and said something similar….yet.

Vivek is the son of priest caste Indians…the disdain and hatred from the priest caste toward lower castes, especially children of light, is common knowledge. 

Most of the H1B candidates from India are priest caste.

The priest caste enjoys the lion’s share of educational opportunities in India; they are the rich elite.

Now these two want to push their system of labor division onto Americans.

Land of the free my eye, Elon.

Alright. Time to play devil’s advocate. Im seeing this discourse become a bit black and white for what is a truly grey situation.

I’ve met numerous works on H1B Visas who through the program were able to fundamentally completely change their life for the better and eventually become US citizens.

The ones I worked with directly were paid competitively as well, were fantastic workers, and loved their jobs.

Without there being a better, improved replacement. Which I agree is necessary, getting rid of the H1-B visa will solely hurt these skilled foreign workers. There won’t be enough jobs created to have a notable impact on our economy for US workers. The jobs would be filled domestically if possible.

Clearly Musk is driven by self interest and clearly the right is legitimately racist and going for the ‘they’re taking our jerbs’ approach. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a third truth here where without H1-B visas there is no mechanism for skilled foreign workers to work in the US and that’s a problem.

And I’m not just talking about India and China. The H1-B Visa workers I knew were from Canada, UK, Iceland, Germany, etc.

There isn’t a single Visa worker in the US that wants to see it disappear. I’m sure almost all of them what it to be reformed so they aren’t as dependent on their employer, but that doesn’t appear to be what’s happening here.

Elon states that there is not enough talent in the US. If you’ve worked for any Fortune 100 company – there are plenty of Americans with talent. Companies have been replacing Americans by outsourcing to other countries and exploiting the H-1B program. Companies don’t want to pay for highly skilled Americans. That’s how they keep investors happy. Lower costs. Elon wants to lower costs and reduce regulation on workers.

This all leads to a gap in skilled workers now and in the future as those skilled workers transition to other careers / industries to put food on their table.

For example, the company I work for is “globalizing” their very regulated business to include call centers in India and PI. They will now have control of those call centers – it’s not even outsourced. They have also expanded in European countries to start outsourcing project work. Pretty much our whole IT department was outsourced to India more than 5 years ago.

Want to talk about non-Americans taking American jobs?? Companies and people like Elon are doing a great job of making that happen themselves even without “open borders” in play. And don’t even get me started on us having to teach our internal AI tool how to do our own jobs!!!

“I thought the dumb racists would just believe what I told them to believe”

Hmmm…a racist calls another racist a racist….

Shocked, Pikachu, etc.