So let’s be really fucking clear here on what Vivek and Musk want. It isn’t more immigration. They want disposable tech workers that they can ship back to their countries of origin when they misbehave. They want the power dynamic they have over H1Bs that they don’t have over US citizens.
What Musk and Vivek can’t find isn’t “motivated” americans. They can’t find cheap american tech workers who have to take abuse or else they get deported.
This is, BTW, why right wingers focus so heavily on border control but not employment enforcement. You could end 90% of undocumented workers today if you penalized businesses found employing them. And it’s real fucking easy to find those businesses. Go to just about any farm in the US.
The reason for boosting ICE funding is so a business owner can turn to their undocumented employees and say “If you don’t fall in line, I’ll call ICE and deport your ass”. This allows them to issue all sorts of abuse at their employees that they can’t get away with for US citizens.
This is why open borders or easy paths to citizenship is important.
This is spot on.
Source: I have worked in tech for 27+ years and have seen multiple outsourcing/offshoring events happen. Still happening in my place of employment really.
They want disposable tech workers that they can ship back to their countries of origin when they misbehave.
Exactly. They want indentured laborers and if they had been smart enough to tell the other conservatives, the other conservatives would have gone along with it.
But they’re not smart people.
The problem, i think, is that if they said that outright their workers might wise up and unionize or something.
They clearly weren’t even smart enough to say it in private.
So let’s be really fucking clear here on what Vivek and Musk want. It isn’t more immigration. They want disposable tech workers that they can ship back to their countries of origin when they misbehave. They want the power dynamic they have over H1Bs that they don’t have over US citizens.
Given just what freaks Thiel and Vance are, I bet they not only want this, too, but probably want to go further:
https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas
H1Bs don’t strike. If they really want to piss off working class magas these oligarchs should tell them why they don’t have universal healthcare yet and it’s pretty closely related to the reason why they want compliant tech workers who don’t or can’t unionize effectively.
Musk:
So they can take advantage of there not being a global minimum wage. This is the real reason for the fear of a one world government. You won’t be able to have something produced for cheap in China and sold at an inflated price in the US if there were a global minimum wage. Corporations (and racists) hate open borders.
