Elon Musk Endorses Post Suggesting Americans Are Too ‘Retarded’ To Do Skilled Jobs

Mediaite ^ | 12/27/2024 | Charlie Nash

[rlmorel]

I’ll bet there are some, no doubt.

Personally, I am not innately against a program to bring foreign talent into our sphere of influence, but not the H-1B as it is currently constituted.

First, as it is, I think it is just stupid. It is mostly an idiotic lottery system, and there should be nothing “lottery” about it. Zero. We should consider the best, and only the best for technology related. How I do not know, but there should be a way. And if technology is not the target for an H-1B applicant, there should be other standards as well.

Secondly, I believe in the issues of national security and the safeguarding of intellectual property, of which the current program protects in no way at all.

The two of these shortcomings combined are fatal, IMO, and need to be fixed. How, I don’t know. But anything would be preferable to what is going on now, and that includes shutting the program down.

[rlmorel]

I feel much as you do regarding Tesla “EV golf carts”. I have no love for the technology as it is currently constituted, doubly so with respect to the widespread dubious rationale that the technology should be pursued because it is “saving the planet”, which is utter stupidity.

I will disagree with you on the rockets.

As I age, I look at what technology has wrought on society, specifically our society, and I don’t like like it at all. People seem to have lost the ability to interact and communicate with others, never mind people who have lost the ability to do anything other than stare at a handheld device or computer screen.

So I understand where you are coming from which encompasses either the negative ramifications of technology or the need to pursue that technology.

If it is the pursuit of that technology we depend on, that Pandora’s box of technology has been opened, and it won’t be closed without some kind of adverse event like a Carrington-Level solar flare from the sun.

Access to space, particularly near-Earth space is vital to technology, and we are blowing people away with that.

It bears on everything from getting a web page on my cell phone to view the address of someplace I am trying to find while traveling, to dropping a JDAM on the heads of people who want to kill me. I view that technology as vital, and satellites play heavily into that.

When they begin sending up heavy loads in Starships, that is going to completely change the calculus. The cost is going to come even further down, and the capabilities of what can be done are going to increase, so I am fully on board with that, even more so since the USA is the world leader, and it isn’t even close.