Tesla replaced laid off US workers using H-1B visas(electrek.co) |
Tesla replaced laid off US workers using H-1B visas(electrek.co) |
Looks like someone just decided to pick USCIS numbers in support of their argument that the intention is to reduce compensation and exploit workers, but failed to provide any substantive evidence, or even a cogent argument.
Elon has literally been calling Americans lazy and explicitly calls out a desire for expanding H1B programs to replace American workers.
When he lays off thousands of workers and then requests over 2,000 H1Bs, it's simply bad faith to try to claim "Well, you can't prove the H1Bs are replacing the workers that got laid off!"
The Pyrrhonian Skeptic act of "WELL YOU DON'T KNOW FOR SURE" just makes you look foolish. It's obvious what's going on, and acting like you don't doesn't make you look smart.
But, I guess bandwagoners are going to bandwagon.
Lay off all Americans and they can stand their ground collectively against a handful of aged like moldy cheese people.
Physics rules the world not our dipshit philosophy.
In the past decade, powerful groups all over the world have realized the importance of presenting their viewpoint (read: propaganda) over social media. Numerous online "reputation management" firms have been born from the existing edifices of marketing and PR. People like Elon pay big money to have a combined-forces army of humans and bots pushing their views in every online venue imaginable. LLMs are the newest and most potent tool in their arsenal.
This is compounded by the genuine human users who, once they have been sufficiently propagandized, will start to participate in this effort unknowingly.
- Elon says he wants to replace American workers with H1Bs
- Tesla lays off 15,000 people across all departments, including engineering
- Tesla applies for 2,405 H1Bs
Sure, we don't have a spreadsheet that says "Bob has been replaced by Raj", but pretending the dots don't connect is willful blindness. Acting like this is some wild coincidence isn't the clever gotcha you think it is.
Like...if I tell you, "My hobby is stealing catalytic converters", and the next day, several cars in my neighborhood are suddenly missing their CCs and a stack of CCs that match all the models of my neighbors' cars and have clearly been sawed off appears in my garage, it's gonna be pretty obvious what happened. Gonna have a hard time with the "It's all coincidental" defense.
Source?
So Tesla laid off 15,000 people. How many of them are US citizens? It applies 2,405 H-1B's for later hirings, sure, but that includes renewals and transfers. Is that number higher than the laid-off part? Nobody knows.