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Summary

Elon Musk faced backlash from his followers on X after advocating for importing “super talented engineers” to address a shortage in the U.S. tech industry.

Musk likened hiring top foreign talent to building a championship sports team and argues that there is a shortage of talented and motivated American engineers.

Critics argued there’s sufficient U.S. talent being overlooked or underpaid, with some pointing to widespread tech layoffs.

Musk dismissed claims of low wages or training gaps, maintaining a need for exceptional engineering talent to advance innovation.

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[–] mercphilby@discuss.online 11 points 1 day ago

Software engineers can devise lots of interesting ways to depose. He’s gonna radicalize the smart people.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 69 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Deport the foreigners taking our jobs except for the ones who directly benefit me.

What. A. Shitstain.

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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Don't forget that (using his words) he himself was an illegal alien that overstayed his student visa and started to work in his first startup with invalid status. Kick him out and ban him from re entry, no exceptions!

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 123 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Musk likened hiring top foreign talent to building a championship sports team and argues that there is a shortage of talented and motivated American engineers.

There's not, it's just they want good wages and working conditions

As an employer the way to get cheaper workers that accept worse conditions is flood the labor pool. With the cost of an American education, H1B's will always take less. Not just from foreign countries, but also from "better" countries with free education.

This isn't just bad for the tech sector, it's bad for everything that requires an advanced degree.

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[–] Gork@lemm.ee 109 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why work for a man who expects his workers to work "hardcore" for 80 hours a week without any overtime pay?

Sounds like exploitation to me.

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[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 79 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why don't you make the education system here in the US better first.

LOL who the fuck am I kidding.

[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 31 points 2 days ago (4 children)

FTFA:

Another Musk follower said that he should "open a school" to better train Americans, and then added, "We have brains."

"If you need a school, you’ve lost already," Musk replied.

You need a school? Get back to work peasant.

[–] Aslanta@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Oh shit! That’s so fucked up.

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When I voted for the leopards ate my face party I didn't think that the leopards would eat their own faces ;)

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What is so incredible is that the education system in the US is so fucked that so so so so SO many high skill, high education jobs need to be brought in from overseas. Meanwhile Elon just wants to fuck over the education system in the US even more.

The reason why he wants to bring in foreign labor is, in all likelihood, to make his employees more easily controlled. Expats are less likely to raise a fuss about their living conditions and may not have much of a connection to the political movements around them to take part in protests. Also if those employees have their visa's dependent entirely on the whims of their employer, if they DO get uppity in any way, they can face almost immediate deportation upon being fired.

In short, he does not give a fuck about Americans. It is 100% about control and exploitation.

[–] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (8 children)

And what happens to us who were born here? Where are we supposed to go when all the jobs that we could fill are being taken by H1Bs and Optimus robots?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

We are all meant to go fuck ourselves.

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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

CEOs man...

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 57 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This is what's causing backlash? Not any of the Nazi shit?

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 52 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Because this goes against the Nazi shit.

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 53 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But I thought we wanted to deport people, not import them.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 60 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Please reference this simple chart:

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