https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1871993406357958693
Your understanding of the situation is upside-down and backwards.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 25, 2024
OF COURSE my companies and I would prefer to hire Americans and we DO, as that is MUCH easier than going through the incredibly painful and slow work visa process.
HOWEVER, there is a dire shortage of extremelyβ¦
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fr though why the frick would anyone skilled work at one of elons companies when they can get a job somewhere else and make double the money for half the work?
Elon is definitely a skilled businessman, but attracting talent is something he sucks at IMO. He can get away with it for
engineers because the market is shit and they don't have better options, not for SWEs tho.
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That's like the one thing he is universally considered good at
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I'm a SWE so I'm thinking only about SWEs tbh. Elon's companies don't attract the best software talent, and never will because he doesn't understand how to attract talent in a competitive market. I could see why they would be really prestigious as a mech eng or whatever though.
The companies that attract the best SWEs offer a ton of flexibility and/or massive comp packages. Elon doesn't believe in either.
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STEMcels are fricking stupid and they drink the fricking "le Mars colony self drive magic tunnel" flavoraide.
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There is no way that the Earth could successfully colonize Mars before figuring out how too make stable all year occupied colonies in Antarctica, underwater homes that last generations, or planetary anywhere on Earth travel that is one hour long at most.
Currently humans at most live around 1-2 years in Antarctica. The fastest scheduled flight takes 30 hours too get around the Earth, and you have a few novel underwater units spread across the world, almost certainly number fewer than the number of countries in the world.
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He can get away with it because his workers get too put their name next too what would be considered a national achievement and would get their foot in the door for any project they ever want too work on for the rest of their lives.
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No they wouldn't.
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Would you rather:
Be a straight man in a gay paradise
or
Be a straight man in a mediocre straight world?
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So he's paying them in exposure?
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All the best businesses are.
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