Summary
Senator Bernie Sanders criticized Elon Musk over his support for the H-1B visa program, calling it a tool for corporations to replace good-paying American jobs with lower-wage foreign labor.
Sanders cited data showing U.S. companies laid off 85,000 American workers between 2022 and 2023 while hiring 34,000 H-1B visa holders, arguing this undermines U.S. competitiveness.
Musk, who credits the visa program for his success, defended it, stating he’s ready to “go to war” over the issue.
The debate has divided MAGA conservatives, exposing rifts within Trump’s coalition.
So now Bernie sanders is pulling a “they’re taking our jobs”? We are living in strange times.
Honestly can’t tell if serious
What if I told you that illegal immigrants are essentially slaves, and far cheaper to hire than visa holders?
What if I told you, “no shit sherlock”.
And you don’t think the rich benefit from that?
words are hard
You’ve made it this far while entirely avoiding taking a fucking hint so expecting you to read words and be permitted to interpret them yourself is just completely unfair, so here is the definition:
No shit, Sherlock:
What you said, that I responded, “no shit sherlock”, to is superfluously obvious. It required literally no work of thought to comprehend.
So here’s how I handle posts that start by linking to dictionary.com; I assume the person on the other end is a pretentious douche, I stop reading, and I reply to explain why so they don’t waste any more time writing things I’m not going to read.
Lol, maybe next time just think before you type. It’s not hard. And maybe the fact that you have met so many “pretentious douches” should tell you that maybe the rest of the world isn’t as pretentious as you are simple. Maybe the common denominator in all of your experiences with assholes is you. And maybe outsourcing your critical thought to everyone around you makes you an incorrigible drag on society. Good thing you didn’t read this though.
Didn’t read that
Aren’t these separate issues? I won’t pretend to know much about this, but it does seem like some companies are taking advantage of H-1B employees.
That’s the point Bernie is making, American companies are firing American workers to hire H-1B at much lower wages.
Never did I imagine living in a dimension that this was not so glaringly obvious that it needed to be said… [clocks room] We’re fucked.
He’s been consistent on these issues for a while. “Open borders? That’s a Koch brothers proposal.”
He’s against 85k americans getting fired, and being replaced by LESS immigrants.
Those immigrants are basically being worked as indentured slaves whose only way to remain in the US is to accept whatever bad deal the corpos throw at them. IF the immigrants were guaranteed the same wages with no dependency on their employers to stay in the US and look for fair work, he would have far less of a problem with it. On a level playing field immigration is okay, but if the corpos basically import slave labor it’s not.
Right now H-1B visas are being used to play the foreign working class against the domestic working class, this is precisely what he argues against.