Posted on 12/27/2024 10:05:09 AM PST by SoConPubbie
Six months ago, I was asked my opinion of the Silicon Valley alignment with MAGA. I said at the time I thought it would last around 18 months and finally climax with a large fracture in the political movement around 2026. I had no idea at the time, the group of technocrats would begin publicly advocating for replacing American workers before Trump took office.
For the past several days I have watched Vivek Ramaswamy, David Sacks, Elon Musk and his big tech influencers debating with their followers about the importance for them to continue expanding H-1b visas for foreign tech workers. It is stunning to see this crew double, triple and quadruple down on advocacy, while defining American workers as inadequate for their Silicon Valley needs.
Alas, it is what it is. Within the argument Musk, Ramaswamy, Sacks and group have presented multiple justifications for their foreign worker assistance programs, while advocating for expanded immigration support therein.
Within the tone of their argument, they essentially say the American worker is (1) not intellectual enough; (2) doesn’t have the right work ethic; and the latest point of justification is that (3) American culture is to blame for their need to import foreign workers.
As Vivek Ramaswamy recently said, “Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.” Thus, as the narrative is sold, American workers need to be replaced with more culturally appropriate Indian tech workers.
When the Indian-American starts saying Indian culture is more adequate at creating workers for the American tech industry, he loses me completely.
If the Indian culture is the holy grail breeding ground for software engineers, then why isn’t New Delhi replacing Silicon Valley?
Considering that factually the Indian culture is entirely based on a caste system, the argument is even more absurd.
What we need are training and recruitment centers for American students. However, the larger issue within the billionaire tech team advocacy is an issue of self-interest.
What we see in the justifications and arguments of the Ramaswamy, Musk and Sacks group is a very specific point of immigration policy for their subset within a singular sector of the American economy. Perhaps this would not be such a big issue, if these points of advocacy were coming from outside government interest groups. However, with this tech team going into the administration, the influence becomes something a little bigger.
The part the Tech Group do not understand is the core of the American DNA, “Liberty“…
It is only from the position of liberty, intellectualism actualized in freedom form, that the working culture of America, the ingenuity part, can be understood.
If you attempt to quantify Americanism with math and algorithms, the translated outcome always fails.
Dear Vivek Ramaswamy, my counter take…
Several years ago, Florida Power and Light won the prestigious international Edward Demming Award for excellence in multi-platform engineering, efficiency superiority and total quality in the process of energy management.
However, the scruffy rednecks did not blow every PhD intellectual out of the water with slide rules, CAD programs, articulated and quantified quality improvement processes and engineering acumen. They did it with hard hats and dirty fingernails.
Because they lost the award, the jaw-agape Japanese spent 6 months visiting and reviewing FPL and later published a 1,000-page study essentially saying FPL “wasn’t really good, they were just lucky.”
You see, the reviewers couldn’t actually quantify the reason why the Florida-based energy company was so successful. In response the FPL field leadership laughed, took out magic markers and wrote on the back of their hard hats: “WE’RE NOT GOOD, WE’RE RUCKY.”
A few years later, every single Kuwaiti oil field was blown up by Saddam Hussein. Global analysts and think-tanks proclaimed it would take 5 years to cap them all off and restart the Kuwait oil pumping industry. Well, the Kuwaiti’s and Saudi’s called Texans, who had them all capped and back in working order in 6 months.
We are a nation that knows how to get shit done.
A few more years pass, and the Northern Chile mine workers were trapped two miles underground. The eyes of the world began to tear as the word spread. Most began to whisper no one could save them. Who did they call for help? A bunch of hick miners from USA coal country who went down there, worked on the fly, engineered the rescue equipment on site, and saved every one of them.
Yup, that’s our America. Ingenuity born from freedom.
Across the pond a half-breed Islamic whack job, armed with an AK-47 and a goal to meet his virgins, began opening fire on a train in France. The scruffneck Americans on board didn’t run to the nearest safe room and hide themselves amid baguettes and brie. They said, “let’s go”, and beat the stuffing out of that little nut with a death wish.
Legion d’Honneur or not, that’s us. WE ARE AMERICANS! That’s just how we roll.
In fact, Lady Liberty can stroll along the Champs-Elysées with a swagger befitting Mae West because without her arrival, they’d be speaking German in the Louvre. Yet, for the better part of the past decade, a group of intellectual leftists have been teaching our children that it’s better to be sitting around a campfire eating sustainable algae cakes and picking parasites off each other; because ‘save the planet’, or something similarly minded. It would appear, they hate the outcomes and inequities from freedom.
Warmest regards,
Americans First!
My BEST advice to @elonmusk @VivekGRamaswamy @DavidSacks and the Silicon Valley tech elites, is to keep talking. Just keep telling Americans how terrible they are and how they need to be replaced. Great Job.
Every time you guys open your typeset in public, @LauraLoomer grows a…
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) December 26, 2024
Is that why Tesla is more profitable than GM, Ford, even VW which is currently suffering from strikes in Germany adding to pressure for Germany to hold new elections in February next year?
So what if he creates companies?
That does not give him the right to screw US citizens while taking advantage of his adopted citizenship, and the unique advsntages of the US.
And I reject your strawman.
I throw stones at those who tilt the scales in their favor. There is no business need, just greed.
I’m ignoring your ad hominem.
Creation is not the only thing: there is malinvestment ad well as investment.
Other Green boondoggles come to mind, like the worthless electric windmills.
And EVs are a major grift, for they not only cost more, but are ultimately powered by coal.
If 70% of the US electric power grid were supplied by conventional nuclear, or Thorium reactors, it wouldn’t be so bad.
It doesn’t matter.
He’s not in the US because of H1-Bs.
He’s in the US because of our rule of law (don’t have to bribe officials to do any and every little thing), our infrastructure to include transport and electricity, our Universities, our purchasing power our lack of intellectual property theft, and our capital markets.
He’s just so greedy he wants to add wholescale wage arbitrage.
As though the richest man in human history can’t afford regular market wages, and ad though he couldn’t afford to pay to train US software developers, as I remember ordinary companies without Musk’s wealth, doing in my lifetime.
Then why’s he pushing for H1-Bs?
And how many H1-Bs are in key engineering slots in Tesla and SpaceX?
And why doesn’t he admit that the other advantages of the US are a reflection of white Christian culture?
Troll.
At the end of the day, the reality is this.
It is and will be
Tech Bros (aka the elite New Deep State) vs. the MAGA BASE.
I assume you are in the latter from your writings. (?)
And we are now 48 hours into the aftermath of digital Ft. Sumter and the god-king is still silent and neutral down in Florida playing golf. Face it, you and others have been played and are being played by the con-men.
His inner sanctum is not in or of the American heartland. They are in the closed, tinsel-town, beautiful people-gated community of gold toilet seat Mar A Lago, which the average red-capped sap will have to climb a wall to get into, rubbing elbows with the elite and well-heeled who funded his campaign and saved his tail from jail.
Condolences.
This sentence is gobbledygook. Structurally, it is a classic example of a run-on sentence.
Instead of blaming everyone else for your misery, look in the mirror, Bucky. Your class envy is overwhelming, exacerbated by intoxicant abuse. Hard to believe you are still employed with your abusive behavior and nasty attitude. I would have fired you.
whadayamean ‘stop trolling’?
do the math ...1986 minus 2024 is not “25 years ago”.
I was only keying on your last sentence...it sounded like it was backing Elon’s contention that Americans are retarded.
If you meant instead, that due to outsoucing/offshoring, the latest generation of US students ran from tech, I agree.
Apologies, sometimes I ready-FIRE!-aim when there are lots of people trolling.
Meet the new boss...
Sounds like your ox has been gored.
Your ad hominems are (as usual from the H1-B apologists) completely off-target.
Satya Nadella started his career in the U.S. at Sun Microsystems before moving to Microsoft, where he eventually became CEO. His journey highlights the significant impact that H-1B visa holders can have on major tech companies.
Sundar Pichai is another prominent example; he joined Google on an H-1B visa and later rose to become the CEO of Alphabet Inc. and Google. His leadership has contributed immensely to Google's growth and innovation.
Elon Musk initially came to the U.S. from South Africa on a student visa but transitioned to an H-1B visa while working on his early ventures, including Zip2 and X.com, which later became PayPal. Musk has since founded or co-founded Tesla, SpaceX, and other companies, significantly influencing various industries.
Jensen Huang founded NVIDIA while on an H-1B visa. NVIDIA has become a key player in graphics processing units (GPUs) and artificial intelligence, showcasing the entrepreneurial spirit supported by the visa program.
Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, also utilized the H-1B visa to start his career in the U.S. before co-founding Google with Larry Page, which has transformed the internet and technology landscape.
Nikesh Arora worked at Google and SoftBank Group before becoming the CEO of Palo Alto Networks, all under the support of the H-1B visa, highlighting the visa's role in career progression across different tech giants.
Tony Xu, co-founder of DoorDash, also started his career in the U.S. on an H-1B visa, contributing to the gig economy through his company's innovative approach to food delivery.
These individuals exemplify how the H-1B visa has been instrumental in bringing skilled labor to the U.S., contributing to technological innovation, and economic growth. Their stories reflect a broader trend where H-1B visa holders have not only filled roles but have also taken leadership positions, founded companies, and spurred job creation.
Google + Intel + Tesla were all founded or built by immigrants.
They employ 400,000+ people collectively.
Percentage of workforce allowed to be H1-B is effectively capped at 15% for big tech companies.
The other 85%+ is American.
At Google only 5% of the workforce was H1-B renewals or petitions in 2023.
The U.S. is 12/37 among first-world (OECD) nations in science.
28/37 in math.
400,000 new engineers are needed every year.
A third of positions go unfilled.
Short-term, we need foreign reinforcements or we will lose.
Long-term, we need to improve the home team
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