• MacAnus@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      3 months ago

      I just finished re watching it a minute ago. Then I get on Lemmy and see this!
      Thanks for confirming it, what a coincidence ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
    30·
    3 months ago

    Elon just went to UK telling white people there that they need to overthrow parliament now or the immigrants will kill them all.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksM
    27·
    3 months ago

    You need an archive link, especially to an Elon Musk tweet. You and anyone else who wants to provide one, have about 30 minutes, or I’ll have to remove it.

  • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
    16·
    3 months ago

    So if we had gotten rid of this a long time ago we wouldn’t have to hear about that asshole all the time? Count me in

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
    14·
    3 months ago

    H1B is the work visum that allows him to stay in the USA?

    What “issue” did he promise to go to war for, last christmas?

    I’m missing context, but I’m not the least bit surprised that all his tweets are grandiose exaggerations.

    edit: thanks for explaining it to me!

    • bigfondue@lemmy.world
      31·
      3 months ago

      No he originally came to the US on an educational visa, and then violated it by overstaying and working on starting his business. H1B is what allows him and the other billionaires to import indentured servants who can’t leave their companies.

    • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      3 months ago

      H1B is the visa that allows rich company owners like him to exploit cheap high tech talent. He can hire an aerospace engineer from India to work at SpaceX in Texas with it. He can also pay that engineer a percentage of what an American aerospace engineer would get. Furthermore he can force that Indian engineer to work a huge amount of hours. If the engineer tries to stand up for himself, threatens to quit, etc. then SpaceX can just fire him and send him back to India. If he quits SpaceX then he has to almost immediately find a new company to sponsor his H1B visa, or it’s also back to India for him. And good luck job hunting without SpaceX catching wind of it when you’re working 10 hour days 6 days a week for them.

        • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          Well it wasn’t meant to be used that way, but my understanding is that the wording of the visa program is vague enough that it can be exploited this way. And the rich assholes who exploit it this way make sure the politicians get nice big donations to keep it from being changed.

          • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
            1·
            3 months ago

            I’m pretty sure US’s immigration legislation is meant to be used exploitatively, getting the good cheap work without giving much in return. If not explicitely then through loopholes, but very much with purpose. And not only since Trump.

            • shawn1122@sh.itjust.works
              1·
              3 months ago

              I mean one should not expect any less from the Mecca of capitalism. Laws will be written to serve capital.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      3 months ago

      No, his citizenship allows him to stay.

      H1Bs are for skilled labor immigrants. I work with a few and it’s a complicated mess that makes it difficult to switch jobs (we just hired one and it took weeks to get the authorization for the new employee to work, despite already having a visa). It also makes it difficult for me to promote people, since we need to open a position for the new role and prove we can’t easily hire for it.

  • plz1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    3 months ago

    He could afford to fill all his companies with H1B’s, and pay the fees personally, and not even notice the cost. Also, wasn’t he in the country by over-staying a student visa?

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      3 months ago

      Really? Tesla has ~125k employees. If all of them were fresh H1Bs, that’s $10B. Tesla’s net income is ~$7B, so in year one, that would create a deficit. If spread over the 6 years of an H1B, that would represent a nearly $2B, and that’s assuming everyone stuck around for the full 6 years.

      Yes, he could afford it, but he’d certainly notice.