https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1872457740955918750
That pretty much sums it up.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 27, 2024
This was eye-opening.
How will things shake out for our African friend? He's nervous posting like crazy
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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 r-slurred," and the⦠pic.twitter.com/KatlmN6BuX
β Autism Capital 𧩠(@AutismCapital) December 26, 2024
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Who wins, autism space boy or angry Americans?
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Elon lol, the masses weren't angry about immigration because of tech nerds losing out to H1-B Indians lol, it was over the absurdity and gaslamping over the border
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No it's the H1-Bs too. At least among the better classes.
I tried to help a friend who was a legit expert in a niche field get an H1-B. I do a little research. It turns out that virtually every H1-B visa goes to jeet "software engineers" who are being pimped out by a cartel of a couple of companies there. So we lost her to another country, someone who actually had unique skills that would be useful here, and got a bunch of indentured servants for IT who serve no purpose other than to replace white and asian Americans.
Somebody fricking explain this to me please. Why is it so important that we have these "skilled workers"
who duplicate skills that are already common in the US? Why is there only one industry where we need these skilled workers?
Hey, here's an idea: We have this big crisis with lack of child care. Now the logical thing is to let women just raise their own kids like in boomer times, but we could never even consider that. So how about this: Bring in skilled workers on H1-B visas to take care of our kids. Everyone says this is a job we can't do ourselves, so why not bring in a million women from the Philippines? Ohhhh yeah, because white women would be incredibly threatened by the competition if they even had to exist in the same society as them. All you trash people b-word about the blacks but it's basically white women and Mark Zuckerberg who are holding back our society.
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Both of these are due to countries being in international competition. If US wages rise too fast, companies will just move to a different country. Also, I think real prices of goods should rise and thus standards of living would fall when you choose your own highly paid workers instead of using cheap offshore labour and using your qualified workers to export high value stuff they can produce economically.
Same for taking women out of the workplace.
All in all, I still think the price is worth to pay, but you have to be mindful of how costly this will be.
You're joking but this could've actually hapenned. USA refused tens of thousands of women from china after it was offered.
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You could have done crack instead of this shit
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Whenever I b-word about the economy or politics I have a few buddies that go, "but you're rich". There is absolutely this burden you carry after six figure where suddenly I'm like a nobleman sitting on a couple thousand acres of cotton. Uh no after I get butt fricked by the government and insurance I get a couple extra thousand. If you don't make 20/hr you can't comment on the economy I guess
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Tax brackets are set up to keep people like you from escaping the grind while your pretax salary ensures you get no solidarity from people in the 15% bracket.
I think the only way out is:
get paid through your business
pay yourself a jeet salary
invest the company's profits in the market
take loans against your holdings
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Yeah I mean I agree, but this wasn't something that most ppl were voting for trump on or what came to mind when illegal immigration came up. Maybe after a big enough stink it will, I guess, but idk how much this would actually move the pendulum
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I feel like people impacted by H1B absolutely are the type of people who vote.
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Trump ain't taking their side, there's a reason he gave them both one side job to do together
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Their proposals directly contradict the plans in Project 2025. They probably just get buck broken like RFK Jr.
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It's a pretty transparent attempt to further enrich techbro entrepreneurs- guess it was worth a shot for them (at the cost of losing all goodwill they had)
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Do you unironically believe that tech entrepreneurs need to be coerced into supporting a stronger supply of wageslaves?
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No? I was referring to the fact that Project 2025 kind of goes against the whole "more H1B wageslaves (for cheap)" argument that Vivec and Musk are pushing. At least from what I can find, Project 2025 involves raising H1B salary floors and removing the lottery system altogether. This goes against the way many tech companies use H1B which is just for cheap. low-level tech labor.
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