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Elon Musk followers turn on him after he backs importing 'super talented engineers'
(www.rawstory.com)
This is what's causing backlash? Not any of the Nazi shit?
this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2024
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Because this goes against the Nazi shit.
Hindu nationalists are about to be very, very surprised at what the Nazis actually think about their actual "Aryan" heritage.
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I don't understand how anyone thinks immigrants steal jobs. You can't just show up to a workplace and collect a paycheque, you have to get hired first.
Employers are giving jobs to immigrants. And they know it because they are the ones getting the visas.
I don’t understand how anyone thinks immigrants steal jobs
Econ 101 Supply/Demand charts tell us that if the supply of laborers goes up, the price for each laborer must fall.
So it's less stealing jobs and more stealing bargaining power for pay.
Of course, this ignores the price fixing power of monopsony. Prices can also be low because there is only one buyer of labor (or one big cartel) in an industry that refuses to employ outside of a certain price range. If you pick up Peter Theil's book "Zero to One", you'll read all about how the end goal of a business owner is to corner the market and dictate price within the industry.
Prices can also be low because there is only one buyer of labor (or one big cartel) in an industry that refuses to employ outside of a certain price range.
There's a lot of under-the-table wage-fixing within the industry. It's usually masked by the use of HR consultants for "benchmarking" of salaries (i.e., providing the desired answer for a reasonable fee). They then inevitably tell the employer that their salaries are higher than their competitors, and the employers use that as leverage to reduce salary increases or cut pay and benefits.
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Yuuuup. A lot of "illegal immigration"and often even the technically legal stuff is honestly closer to "human trafficking." They want people they can pay less and who will be too scared of ICE to speak up about labor violations and shady / dangerous business practices. A looot of nursing homes are staying in business while understaffing to the point of extreme neglect by hiring immigrant nurses then telling them they'll get deported or owe them $10k+ for breaking their contract or otherwise losing them as an employer. This is how you wind up hearing stories about a nursing home that had one nursing assistant responsible for 32+ patients, half or more total care who in addition to needing to be fed and cleaned also need to be turned side to side every two hours to not literally wear holes in the skin over their bones. In my clinical placement I saw a pressure injury from a nursing home so big the wound care nurse could fit her fist in and when she debrided the dead tissue you could see the sacrum underneath. The nurses at these places are too scared to speak up because even if what the employer is telling them is illegal they don't know for sure or it would take resources they don't have to fight it. And by the time the patient gets any help you've got those massive pressure ulcers. I'm very pro DNR just let me go ffs.
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Can we ask Musk to volunteer to become the world's first recorded instance of a Mellified Man? Then science can determine if it's truly a medical marvel or not. He'll be the only one to have done it! I think his ego might go for that.
Plus it'll be sweeter when we eat him. Candied CEO sounds kinda good.
Finally, you could sincerely call him a sweet man
The way to attract talented American engineers is to pay them more, not replace them with ringers. Fucking twat.
There is a material value in never having to wonder if I'm going to be ordered to print out my most salient code contributions to justify my role to the CEO.
When you're THAT BAD people literally will accept being paid less... The gotcha is that they'll accept it in exchange for never having to deal with your idiotic bullshit again by leaving.
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But I thought we wanted to deport people, not import them.
Please reference this simple chart:
Let's see where the imports are from. I have a feeling those who would accept bottom-tier wages will be the preferred import. I'm not blaming the workers, either. They will be sadly surprised by COL.
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H1B Visa for me, none for thee
I thought AI meant we didn't need all these tech workers? /s
It’s never too late to develop class consciousness, clueless tech bros.
Edit to add: Dollars to donuts, the people still putting up with Musk’s shit at 𝕏itter are the H-1B workers just trying to survive without getting deported. Two years ago: Why foreign workers in the US are especially vulnerable to the Twitter turmoil
Earlier this week, Elon Musk gave remaining staff an ultimatum to commit to working “hardcore” or to leave. But some staff who would like to leave the company feel like they can’t because doing so, may leave them no choice but to depart the US, multiple former Twitter employees told CNN.
How are you going to get super talented engineers when you’re gutting everything good in America.
The goal is to lower US labor costs to below European ones and more akin to the typical 50k/year indentured servitude india H1B worker salary.
Average European labour costs tend to match the average US costs because of taxes and government services paid for from taxes being different.
On the one hand, I barely get six figures in EUR as a mid-senior engineer. On the other, my rent is capped at below 20% of my take home for a large penthouse, my insurance is 140 EUR and valid everywhere across Europe, no extra costs, dental included. If I get fired, I get years of unemployment. Years.
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It's because they don't intend to do anything to improve the education around here. That would swing voters away from them.
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I'll believe any negative Elon news when it starts to actually hurt his pocketbook or well-being or life.
Until then I am apt to just consider it clickbait.
I dream of the day he's held accountable for something in a major way, but like my desire for that for Trump, I just have my doubts.
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