Greg Wycliffe - December 29, 2024


Elon Musk wants cheap Foreign Labour H1B visas


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1 minute

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Word count

295

Sentence count

19

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Toxicity

6

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Hate speech

5

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Elon Musk wants to get rid of the H1B visa program and hire more smart foreigners to do the work that Americans are too dumb to handle. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? I don't think so.

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00:00:00.000 Over the past couple months in Canada, the whole country has realized the temporary foreign workers program is being exploited for cheap labor.
00:00:08.980 Even Justin Trudeau has addressed this.
00:00:12.360 And now this H-1B visa conversation is happening in the state.
00:00:16.640 And it's being pushed by right-wingers as this good thing.
00:00:19.640 It's not diversity is our strength, but smart foreigners are our strength.
00:00:23.440 And the conversation has gone something like, well, Elon, why can't you just hire Americans to do this work? 1.00
00:00:28.860 And it's like, well, Americans are too dumb. Why are they too dumb? Because their education 1.00
00:00:33.220 institutions suck. Well, can we fix those institutions? No. And then this has gone 0.99
00:00:37.800 back and forth. And of course, a lot of people are getting upset. And Elon has kind of finally
00:00:42.120 said, oh, well, I'm not saying the H-1B visa program. It's perfect. Like, yeah, it needs to 1.00
00:00:47.420 be reformed. And as a Canadian, I can tell you these immigration policies will be exploited.
00:00:52.040 It's not a question of if, it's just how much they will be exploited. But it's too bad that
00:00:56.460 this American billionaire is prioritizing reforming the immigration program and not addressing yeah 0.99
00:01:01.940 well the education system sucks to the point where Americans are retarded. So Elon Musk and other 0.99
00:01:08.680 right-wing influencers should not be surprised that people are getting upset by this. We're
00:01:13.300 clearly seeing a billionaire prioritize his bottom lines in the short term over the benefit of
00:01:20.640 American institutions over the long term. Tesla importing foreign workers to maximize their 0.99
00:01:26.040 market share is not putting america for like isn't the implication from elon that american
00:01:31.320 institutions are so bad that americans aren't even employable and we're not going to address
00:01:38.820 that problem we're just going to keep hiring foreigners 1.00