notNearly99
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notNearly99
@wiredash
politically disenfranchised but not entirely covfefe as many may have presumed
West Coast Beigetreten Eylül 2008
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@hartgoat Curious. What is your position when AI takes over most of these jobs, especially on the lower end. Why is this the hill to die on when it won't be standing in a couple of years?
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This is such an elitist take. Years ago I worked 16 hour days and you know where that got me? It got me let go so they could replace me with someone they could pay far less than me. In less than a year every American at the job who did in fact work 80 hour weeks were replaced by a whole group from Bangladesh
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@AsDawnApproach @jordanbpeterson @elonmusk This is kinda wicked. So we are seeing an Asian person complain in Mandarin (presumably) that there are Indians everywhere in Canada and a white person is using that as a retort to @jordanbpeterson
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@jordanbpeterson @elonmusk Let's check in on your home nation of Canada and see how it has worked out there, shall we?
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Musk is right to do this. It is a net gain for the US, as super smart people build what's new and everyone benefits @elonmusk
It's the opposite of DEI
Elon Musk@elonmusk
Maybe this is a helpful clarification: I am referring to bringing in via legal immigration the top ~0.1% of engineering talent as being essential for America to keep winning. This is like bringing in the Jokic’s or Wemby’s of the world to help your whole team (which is mostly Americans!) win the NBA. Thinking of America as a pro sports team that has been winning for a long time and wants to keep winning is the right mental construct.
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@waltfabi @scott_robi90356 @BlazeEigs @jordanbpeterson @elonmusk Definition of insanity is something something and expecting a different outcome
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@BlazeEigs @jordanbpeterson @elonmusk Cuz it's people's livelihood that is getting fkd over by a weak ass law that fails its expressed intent and kicks American families in the gut. This is not free market in action. It is the wild west
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@jordanbpeterson @elonmusk I can't understand why this is even mildly contentious. The drift from the free-market mindset of Americans is worse than I thought. It's been frogs in slowly boiling water to this point. Plenty of books on this. Perhaps we've stopped reading!!
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@AFpost Yall spending money on this to what take away blue check marks from 4channers and other nobodies?
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@AGroyper4217 @atalovesyou I mean, what could be the worst thing to happen? Worth a shot I say
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Increase base pay to $100k, give a green card to everyone after 5 years on H1B.
Wage suppression would continue if there is no pathway for green card from H1B.
Logan@Logancookingham
H1B takeaways… The good: In my personal experience, I’ve met some incredibly talented and hardworking people on H1B visas in the tech world The bad: From others experiences on X in fields like IT, there seems to be an abuse of the H1B visa for cheap labor The solution: Revise H1B visa to recruit hard working, talented, and honest people — while preventing loopholes to use it as cheap labor to undercut wages The question: what should these revisions look like?
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@AnnaGorisch @FPWellman The line on the right was the sticker. The line to read between was immigration only from countries 'that looked like Americans'
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@ManacledGerm @UnsaidAngle @vikramchandra I think assimilation requires giving up the idea that you can only be secure in your likeness, your kind. It is embracing whatever idea of collective identity exists proximal to where you choose to live
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@UnsaidAngle @vikramchandra What is the point of assimilating if it means loss of identity?
Mormons, Amish, Muslims preserve their culture and are still perfectly American. Muhammed Ali and Kareem Abdul jab are were never challenged on their patriotism or American identity.
Why are Hindus different?
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The strange part about the recent hate in the USA is that the Indian American community is actually a model minority. The highest per capita taxes, well assimilated, built more than 90 unicorns, created plenty of jobs. Most of them embrace American ways and American values.
That's in contrast to, say, Canada - which did get in a lot of scamsters and Khalistani trouble makers - many of whom are not well assimilated. And many of whom make little effort to fit in.
Hence it is possible that the "anti Indian immigrant" storm could blow over in the USA faster than in Canada. And if it doesn't, then there is something deeper at play.
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@j_brucestewart @UnsaidAngle @vikramchandra I don't think anyone is really racist. They are just fearful
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@UnsaidAngle @vikramchandra Or maybe just maybe some Americans are racist
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Better a million illegal White immigrants than a hundred legal Indian immigrants
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@RepMariaSalazar @elonmusk @VivekGRamaswamy @realDonaldTrump Criminal proceedings against fake cvs - heavy fines leading up to jail time if found guilty for applicants and employers
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@RepMariaSalazar @elonmusk @VivekGRamaswamy @realDonaldTrump No.. not without a wholesale rewrite of the law
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Do you support raising immigration country caps?
@elonmusk, @VivekGRamaswamy, & @realDonaldTrump are right.
But we must tackle country caps (currently 7%) & green card backlogs (years/decades).
The Dignity Act addresses these to increase American prosperity & competitiveness.
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@KonstantinKisin Just like the woke left, there is a spectrum. It is a less than perfect union of insecure and lazy but white entitled young uns mixed in with ppl who are genuinely funked over by the system with a healthy smattering of disenfranchised white supremists who saw DJT as their saviour
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Now that Elon, Vivek and others have come across the Woke Right, it's helpful to once again lay out the basics.
The Woke Right is a section of the Right which, like the Woke Left, believes in racism for the "right" reasons, has a conspiracy about how the world is systematically and institutionally against them and happily uses the tactics of mobbing, cancellation and other woke tactics to attack their opponents. They don't believe in discussing views and ideas, only in winning.
It's basically like BLM for white people.
You can read more about it here:
konstantinkisin.com/p/thou-shalt-n…
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@_aphid7 @patrickbetdavid Sacrifice? Also, I never said I was cool or not cool with it. I just expressed the facts. People make choices about their lives and the roles they choose to play. Some play for junior league, others play for the World Series. At the end of the day, you live with your choices
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@wiredash @patrickbetdavid okay so you are cool with ritual human sacrifice of children to get a better internet connection, freak.
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Respectfully, both the app + the phone you’re using were built by a founder and executive team that worked 80 hours a week for many years.
Also, our founding fathers worked and fought non stop (more than 80 hrs/week) to build America.
We’re beneficiaries of their sacrifices.
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@patrickbetdavid Kindly Patrick, Working 80 hours a week is not a healthy role model.
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@_aphid7 @patrickbetdavid Yeah. But we would be without Tesla, spaceX, xAI, free speech-ish or just even making Science and Acomplishment cool again
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@patrickbetdavid If musk spent less than 80 hrs working maybe his son wouldn't be some weird trans freak
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@americaninq1488 @ichthys30 Emptive * . We can't even get autocorrect to function properly, real AI is fake pipedream
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Let China win … what ?
Mikhaila Peterson@MikhailaFuller
“Let’s just ignore this and let China win” - the woke right
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@AdmiralOfSol @tyrannideris @SomeRocketGuy01 I really want to have an honest convo. I don't disagree with you in principle. Buy if people were indeed > corporations help me understand capitalism, free markets, Healthcare in the US, education. To me it always feels like profit before everything
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@AdmiralOfSol @tyrannideris @SomeRocketGuy01 Perhaps I could articulate this with a bit more patience. You are not an island. Your need for a job is second to the need of a company to be and remain globally competitive. Hence, wage pressure is not solely the result of H1B, it is a function of globalization.
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@markpoling @MikhailaFuller More people should talk about this @elonmusk
Remove clauses on imported labor. Don't have them on a leash. And have a 1.5x premium on payroll for any imported labor.
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@MikhailaFuller H1-B visas allow companies to import labor that will accept lower initial wages AND who aren't free to change jobs should better opportunities arise.
It's not about qualifications. It's the artificial corporate cost discount that's the problem.
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People who think less qualified Americans should be hired over more qualified legal immigrants are the same as pro DEI people. Getting smart people to move to your country, is good for your country. Do you want America to stay the world power or not?
- An immigrant
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