I see your Sririam Krishnan, and raise you a Steven Cheung.
In all fairness, my grandfather referred to me in my primary youth as "pumpkin head".
Posted on 12/27/2024 9:42:57 AM PST by Miami Rebel
Billionaire Trump surrogate Elon Musk endorsed a post on Thursday which suggested Americans were too “retarded” to be hired for skilled jobs.
After the South Africa-born CEO of X, SpaceX, and Tesla found himself embroiled in an argument over H-1B visas and the importation of foreign labor over American workers, a pro-Musk account wrote:
So basically the right split into two factions, tech right and right right, and the tech right is like “hey we need h-1b visa people to do the jobs,” and the right right was like “no you need to hire americans,” and the tech right is like “but you guys are retarded,” and the right right is like “well you don’t train us,” and the tech right is like “you can’t outtrain being retarded,” and while all this was going on we learned some people *really* don’t like Indians.
“That pretty much sums it up,” replied Musk, mere hours after defending one of his engineers who posted a series of racist, anti-White rants. “This was eye-opening.”
That pretty much sums it up.
This was eye-opening.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 27, 2024
On Thursday, Musks’s DOGE co-head Vivek Ramaswamy also received backlash after he suggested companies were not hiring Americans because they were raised in a culture of “mediocrity.”
President-elect Donald Trump announced last month that Musk and Ramaswamy would lead the newly-created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) – an announcement praised by many of Trump’s allies and supporters.
In the wake of remarks made by both Musk and Ramaswamy this week, however, many Trump supporters have begun to express concern over their involvement in the second Trump administration.
My personal experience over 30 years writing code is this happens all the time.
Elon is wrong and bigly.
Further the universities take foriegn students because they can charge the maximum for tuition and each foriegn student denies an American student. These nations like China send their students into Engineering, Computer Science and Math. This has really messed up our engineering pipeline. This is at state schools that American tax payers have paid for a very long time.
America first means Americans come first in America Elon and Vivek need to get the message or I'm calling presdident Trump
When I moved into my North Fort Worth neighborhood 13 years ago African American, White, non-Hispanic, and a few Hispanics lived there. Fast forward 13 years and now it is about 40 percent Indian/ Pakistan families to 30 percent White, non-Hispanic, families and a few Hispanic and African American families. There are at least 3 generations here from each Indian family. Unfortunately, none of them seem to know how to do yard work.,
I’ve been a programmer for 44 years.
Not really retarded just deeply trained/programed to appear that way by a centralized education system.
If anyone was paying attention during the Republican primaries, they would have heard Vivek say he wanted to increase visas for people from India. That turned me off completely from Vivek.
H-1B is a stab in the heart of MAGA.
Our country needs less billionaires and Dem politicians telling us how to live.
Reform schools and universities to teach math and science .
Grow our own programmers and scientists.
Import fewer curry consumers and fewer mainland Chinese.
So don’t tell the talent doesn’t exist in this country. These kids are out there, U.S. companies don’t want them they want slaves.
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I work for a worldwide company that designs and manufactures heavy industrial equipment. Almost all of the engineering design was based in the US for many decades. I have noticed your statement above to be true. We are trying to groom engineers in India instead of hiring engineers here in the US. I don’t think it is a shortage of engineering talent in the US (but I could be wrong). I think it is because we are going for cheap labor.
I see your Sririam Krishnan, and raise you a Steven Cheung.
In all fairness, my grandfather referred to me in my primary youth as "pumpkin head".
Never said they were.
However, you said “Engineering schools are not “colleges,” (which are also filled with dumb jocks and legacies.)”
which is difficult to interpret.
There are very few Engineering only schools - Harvey Mudd College comes to mind. Almost all are part of a big ‘U’ usually a big ‘state U”. “Big State U” does have its jocks, etc. occasionally they wander into the engineering programs and even more occasionally they graduate.
My youngest is 10+ years out of a state university engineering school and is pulling mid-six figures in programming at one of the largest financial services information firms in the world. His colleagues are of varying nationalities but over half are Americans.
Nice font!
Young people have the worst work ethic
Chain Migration: When an immigrant to the United States sponsors other family members for admission – such as parents, children and siblings – who can then sponsor other immigrants themselves, and so on…
Chain Migration: When an immigrant to the United States sponsors other family members for admission – such as parents, children and siblings – who can then sponsor other immigrants themselves, and so on…
“Young people have the worst work ethic,” said every oldster since the Great Flood.
Excellent article. Thanks.
And your point is what?
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