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There’s a lot of chatter brewing right now between Elon Musk, Vivek, foreign workers, and MAGA over the H-1B visa issue. It’s no secret that tech bros love foreign workers—they’re all about cheaper labor to pad their bottom lines. This isn’t a new problem, and it didn’t start with Elon or Vivek, but they’re definitely keeping it alive, which is causing serious friction within MAGA. The America First movement is all about putting U.S. workers first, not prioritizing foreign Asian and Indian workers. But here’s the thing—this issue isn’t as simple as “foreign workers bad, U.S. workers good.”
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It’s deeper than that…
Thanks to the left’s DEI agenda and the purple-haired HR warriors now dominating many corporate HR departments, the game has changed in ways we couldn’t have imagined just a decade ago. This layered and complex issue has created a significant rift in the love affair between Elon and MAGA—and, naturally, the left-wing media is reveling in the drama.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who will soon head President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, have repeatedly demonized undocumented immigrants. In recent days, though, Musk and Ramaswamy have both argued Big Tech firms desperately need foreign workers – generating controversy among the MAGA base.
Both Musk and Ramaswamy appeared to be expressing support for H-1B visas for high-skilled workers. These visas have often been criticized by the left and right for allowing companies to rely on cheaper foreign labor. Companies also maintain significant control over such workers; it’s difficult for them to switch jobs, and if they lose their jobs, they can be forced to leave the country.
Musk took to his social media site, X, on Wednesday to argue that Silicon Valley firms need foreign workers because there aren’t enough “super motivated” and “super talented engineers” in America. His statements quickly drew criticism from conservatives who support Trump’s draconian immigration policies.
“The number of people who are super talented engineers AND super motivated in the USA is far too low,” Musk wrote. “Think of this like a pro sports team: if you want your TEAM to win the championship, you need to recruit top talent wherever they may be. That enables the whole TEAM to win.”
The idea that Americans won’t do the jobs foreigners will has been propaganda for ages. First, it was the “dirty jobs” Americans supposedly didn’t want. Now, it’s the “tech jobs” that only foreigners are willing—or able—to do. But the truth lies somewhere in the middle of all the mudslinging and online outrage. At its core, this issue circles back to the DEI movement and the rainbow-haired brigade steering progressive, white-man-hating HR departments across the country.
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That’s why this post on X is so impactful—it peels back a layer many of us have overlooked and reveals just how much deeper and more complex this issue really is.
Today’s big beef is between tech-success maximizers like @elonmusk
and MAGA nationalists who think the US job market is being flooded by low-skill immigrants because employers don’t want to pay competitive wages to Americans.To be honest, I think both sides are making some sound points. But I’d rather focus on a different aspect of the problem.
When I entered the job market as a fledgling programmer back in the early 1980s, I didn’t have to worry that some purple-haired harpy in HR was going to throw my resume in the circular file because I’m a straight white male.
I also didn’t have to worry that a hiring manager from a subcontinent that shall not be named would laugh at my qualifications because in-group loyalty tells him to hire his fourth cousin from a city where they still shit on the streets.
It’s a bit much to complain that today’s American students won’t grind as hard as East Asians when we abandoned meritocracy more than 30 years ago. Nothing disincentivizes working your ass off to excel more than a justified belief that it’s futile.
Right now we’re in and everybody-loses situation. Employers aren’t getting the talent they desperately need, and talent is being wasted. That mismatch is the first problem that needs solving.
You want excellence? Fire the goddamn HR drones and the nepotists. Scrap DEI. Find all the underemployed white male STEM majors out there who gave up on what they really wanted to do because the hiring system repeatedly punched them in the face, and bring them in.
Don’t forget the part about paying competitive wages. This whole H-1B indentured-servitude thing? It stinks, and the stench pollutes your entire case for “high-skill” immigration. You might actually have a case, but until you clean up that mess Americans will be justified in dismissing it.
These measures should get you through the next five years or so, while the signal that straight white men are allowed to be in the game again propagates.
I’m not going to overclaim here. This will probably solve your need for top 10% coders and engineers, but not your need for the top 0.1%. For those you probably do have to recruit worldwide.
But if you stop overtly discriminating against the Americans who could fill your top 10% jobs, your talent problem will greatly ease. And you’ll no longer get huge political pushback from aggrieved MAGA types against measures that could solve the rest of it.
Doesn’t that seem like it’s worth a try?
Today's big beef is between tech-success maximizers like @elonmusk and MAGA nationalists who think the US job market is being flooded by low-skill immigrants because employers don't want to pay competitive wages to Americans.
To be honest, I think both sides are making some…
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) December 26, 2024
As we mentioned earlier, all roads lead back to the left’s insidious DEI agenda, whose tentacles have quietly infiltrated nearly every aspect of American life. We’ve been covering this issue from every angle and were sounding the alarm on the dangers of DEI long before it hit most people’s radar. One of our most compelling pieces featured Kaitlyn, a top-tier student with a 1500 SAT score, who was rejected by every Ivy League school. Her story is emblematic of the broader “battle” over H-1Bs and beyond—it’s a window into a much larger and more troubling problem.
A Wall Street Journal article recently profiled the young high school graduate, who despite a stellar academic record will be attending Arizona State University after receiving rejection letters from the Ivy League schools and some University of California flagships.
Kaitlyn Younger has been an academic standout since she started studying algebra in third grade.
She took her first advanced-placement course as a freshman, scored 1550 on her SATs as a junior at McKinney High School near Dallas and will graduate this spring with an unweighted 3.95 grade-point average and as the founder of the school’s accounting club. Along the way she performed in and directed about 30 plays, sang in the school choir, scored top marks on the tests she has so far taken for 11 advanced-placement classes, helped run a summer camp and held down a part-time job.
“She is extraordinary,” said Jeff Cranmore, her guidance counselor at McKinney High School.
Ms. Younger, 18 years old, was cautiously optimistic when she applied to top U.S. colleges last fall. Responses came this month: Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Brown, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, University of California, Berkeley, and Northwestern all rejected her.
[WSJ]
Poor Kaitlyn just didn’t get it. No doubt her parents raised her to work hard and try her best at everything. Almost certainly, she believed she lived in a meritocratic country where the most excellent would rise to the top and be rewarded.
Sadly, Kaitlyn is wrong. The meritocratic America is dead, and it’s now a husk replaced by a caste-based spoils system. And Kaitlyn, being a white, middle-class, probably heterosexual girl from a flyover state, is nearly at the bottom of this caste system. As Revolver described last year, Kaitlyn is a kulak:
The modern American regime is built on explicit, institutionalized hostility to the people who most resemble the great Americans of the past. It is anti-white, anti-male, anti-Christian, anti-rural, and anti-middle class. The more of these traits a person has, the more worthy of hate they become. … The white American middle class have become America’s kulaks — Blamed for every problem, vilified for every success, and deserving of every punishment. Their destruction has become a fundamental goal of American political life.
If Kaitlyn wanted to be rewarded by America’s elite institutions, she didn’t need to show excellence. What she needed to show was fealty. Instead of an accounting club, she should have founded a post-George Floyd racial justice movement. Instead of being presumptively straight, she needed to make LGBTQ+ a core part of her identity and at least call herself bisexual, like 12.5 percent of Harvard’s latest class.
But the single best thing Kaitlyn could have done to improve her admissions cycle was simply not be white.
We strongly encourage you to read this entire piece—it’s a true eye-opener that brings much-needed clarity to the H-1B debate dominating headlines. It delves into just how deep the problem runs and outlines what must be undone to advance our America First agenda:
The Regime Fears White Americans Will Outfox the “Affirmative Action” Scam
HR has become yet another weapon in the left’s arsenal, standing on the front lines of DEI like rogue soldiers wielding too much power and operating with zero oversight. These anti-merit, white-man-hating ideologues shouldn’t be holding the reins. That power needs to be returned to fair-minded individuals who prioritize what’s best for the company—not those pushing progressive Marxist policies. HR’s role should be to provide guidelines, not to gate-keep job opportunities in service of a twisted political agenda.
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