I done goofed. Quit being mad at me and just love me again.
It's ok, Elon. Everybody is allowed one mistake.
Posted on 12/29/2024 9:58:23 AM PST by conservative98
Elon Musk admitted that the H1-B visas are “broken” and floated a potential fix as he sought to cool a raging civil war within the MAGA base over the immigration program for highly skilled foreign workers.
Just a day after vowing to “go to war on this issue” and telling detractors to “F— yourself,” Musk, the world’s richest man, acknowledged some of the criticisms of the program getting abused and argued that the US should make it more costly to hire foreigners.
“Easily fixed by raising the minimum salary significantly and adding a yearly cost for maintaining the H1B, making it materially more expensive to hire from overseas than domestically,” Musk wrote on X late Saturday in response to a thread claiming H1-B visas were being used to hire low-wage programmers and developers.
“I’ve been very clear that the program is broken and needs major reform,” he added. “I’m confident that the changes made in the @realDonaldTrump administration will make America much stronger.”
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It's ok, Elon. Everybody is allowed one mistake.
To quote someone recently, “Elon, go fix yourself!”
thenationalpulse.com
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While bringing allegedly top talent from around the world to the United States sounds good on its face, this isn’t actually what H1B visas do.
The O-1 visa is actually the program used to grant legal work status to a foreign nation in the United States that is considered a ‘once-in-a-generation’ intellectual talent in a critical industrial sector.
H1B visas apply more to workers with skills that native-born Americans can easily learn through technical training programs or even collegiate classes. Think more programmer or mid-level software engineer than someone trained in semiconductor fabrication.
Even more concerning is that the big tech companies routinely abuse H1B visas as part of a scheme to suppress the wages of both American and foreign workers while maximizing shareholder profits.
Recently, the U.S. Department of Justice ramped up enforcement of visa rules after a pattern emerged in which tech companies artificially create the appearance of a domestic work shortage to increase their H1B allotments. This ultimately resulted in native-born workers being laid off and replaced two or threefold by cheaper foreign H1B workers.H1Bs benefit tech companies on two key fronts:
First, on average, H1B workers are paid significantly less than their American-born counterparts. This effectively puts downward pressure on wages across the industry, meaning American workers also get paid less;
Secondly, because the visa is attached to the sponsor company, the foreign worker lacks the leverage afforded to American-born workers who can demand higher salaries by simply looking to take a job with a different firm.
…AND A COMPLETE SCAM.
Little data actually supports the tech industry’s claims of a worker shortage and a need to end H1B country caps. The data does suggest, however, that big tech is replacing qualified and capable American workers with cheaper foreign labor.
Between 2022 and 2024, Amazon laid off nearly 30,000 high-skilled workers. In the same period—though in compliance with federal law regarding when companies can request H1B visa workers—the online retail giant expanded its workforce by nearly 100,000 foreign workers.
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one thing about the MAGA leaders...they are capable of learning. unlike liberals.
These are really passionate people, with big personalities and opinions so yeah, there are going to be clashes. Just as long as someone is in charge. Too many alphas spoil the brew
I knew it, and said it in a previous post. Elon, Vivek, and the Don were punking the media.
Musk is a great thinker, but he cannot politic and it shows.
He also has blind spots...like taking Ozempic and wanting it in health plans instead of maintaining one’s body responsibly with good food and exercise.
Our government has hated US Citizens for over 50 years. Time will tell whether Trump/Musk fix it, but I honestly do NOT hold out much hope.
Trump may have had a little private chat with Elon....
I doubt if he was aware of the abuses prior to this. Good that they got a good look at it, now it will be fixed.
So what......taterhead changed his tune about pardoning his crackhead criminal son and I don’t hear much bitching about that.
His actions of hiring over 1,650 H1B foreigners over Americans just at Tesla speak louder than any words he may say.
it’s occurred to me that the inane natterings of the demagogue unison chorus all saying, “musk is the real president “ has gone strangely silent as we have this healthy debate on LEGAL immigration policy.
they’ll have to find another insane mantra to be this term’s “Russia, Russia, Russia.”
That MAGA base is not at civil war over this. It is the globalist cheap labor that we are at war with.
Nothing wrong with being rich or eccentric.
I’m getting fatigue over this issue. It’s hogging the news cycle!
If they stay out of politics.
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