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4th

(114 posts)
Sun Dec 29, 2024, 01:49 PM Sunday

Looks like Trump maybe outranks Musk after all?

Elon Musk changes his tune on H1-B visas as he tries to cool raging MAGA civil war over skilled immigration
https://nypost.com/2024/12/29/us-news/elon-musk-changes-his-tune-on-h1-b-visas-after-maga-backlash/

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.

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Midnight Writer

(23,161 posts)
1. What kind of person has $450 billion dollars and is still obsessed that his employees are overpaid?
Sun Dec 29, 2024, 01:53 PM
Sunday

If I had $450 billion, I would have the best paid workers in the world and be proud of it.

uponit7771

(92,092 posts)
2. Not happening, MAGA will fill any "fix" to H1B program with Mac Truck loopholes like it already has
Sun Dec 29, 2024, 01:54 PM
Sunday

Intractable

(610 posts)
3. Musk wants a "tarrif" on importing workers.
Sun Dec 29, 2024, 01:58 PM
Sunday

I've been a proponent for at least two decades about raising the cost of the H1-B visas to employers.

Back then, in the tech sector, I worked with a few such people at Nortel Networks. They were all very nice and smart, but did not have skills Americans didn't have.

"The H-1B visa program has been around for approximately 34 years. It was established by the Immigration Act of 1990, signed into law by President George H.W. Bush. However, the roots of the H-1B visa can be traced back to the H-1 visa category created by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952"

UTUSN

(72,756 posts)
4. Not "outranks", just trying to stay in the game. Drumpf sided with him, so advisers settled them down.
Sun Dec 29, 2024, 02:02 PM
Sunday

Quiet Em

(1,235 posts)
5. ha.
Sun Dec 29, 2024, 02:03 PM
Sunday

They fractured their base and weakened their social media bully pulpit.

In five days they may not even have a Speaker.

I'm just going to sit here and watch them self-destruct.

33taw

(2,941 posts)
6. I don't believe they will make any changes. That would cut into their slave wages. This is just a pacifier to calm the
Sun Dec 29, 2024, 02:30 PM
Sunday

MAGA crowd.

duncang

(3,744 posts)
8. It's not that tfg outranks him.
Sun Dec 29, 2024, 02:35 PM
Sunday

It’s that the venom pointed towards Elon upset his ego. He’s afraid of losing his adoring fans. At the same time if he is questioned about this now he’s worried people will second guess his suggestions later on when he’s sitting in his office giving out commands to the maga congress.

Frasier Balzov

(3,592 posts)
12. They're working as a team.
Sun Dec 29, 2024, 04:16 PM
Sunday

Trump pays attention what the base thinks and tries to make sure that they're hearing the right message from Trump World.

Musk is rich enough to not care what the base thinks. He speaks his mind, sometimes forgetting or disregarding how it conflicts with the official message or puts the team's hypocrisy on display.

ecstatic

(34,535 posts)
13. He probably changed his tune on his own
Sun Dec 29, 2024, 05:03 PM
Sunday

He has enough analytics on his site to know the way things are shifting and at the end of the day, it's all about retaining power and influence.

trump is literally on video stating that any foreigner attending college in the US should get a green card. Have eLoon and vilevac voiced similar ideas?

intheflow

(29,080 posts)
14. This is still fucking tone deaf.
Mon Dec 30, 2024, 11:28 AM
Monday

So they still want to bring foreign tech workers AND they want to raise their minimum wage, which is already higher than the actual minimum wage? Yeah, that’s gonna go over like a ton of bricks.

How come their answer isn’t more rigorous training for US tech workers? These people are beyond ridiculous.

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