The Elmo paradox
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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An educated population is the last thing oligarchs want.
They want a cheap, dedicated, exploitable, disposable, and educated work force.
Educate me. How am I supposed to do anything if I can’t do anything..
In an age of inequality unrivaled since the Robber Barons, are lazy workers really the problem?
The real reason is Indentured Servitude – H1B visa holders are extremely limited in where they are allowed to work & Fired == Deported
With Capitalism, it’s always about control.
The solution is simple: Just set the minimum salary for an H-1B at $500,000 a year. If the tech companies aren’t willing to pay that for all of this “amazing foreign talent”, then I guess they’re not so amazing after all.
Oh I’m sorry gen x, you’re too old to hire.
That’s not true. the Americans just want to be paid better than the brown and yellow people without any extra work. You know, just white supremacy stuff they’ve been taught when growing up.
Why is Jeff Tiedrich still posted all the time on Reddit? I understand cursing is funny but it got old about 4 years ago with this guy.
the only thing they are concerned with is paying less. the narrative and justification doesnt mean jack
Educated people make terrible consumers and laborers, that’s why the right hates education.
Why Elon nickname is Elmo ?
Elmo is cute innocent character, literally a child.
I really don’t get why Elon being associated with a cute Sesame Street character.
(Yes I’m aware the original puppeteer handling Elmo was fired because he’s a pedo or some shit, but that’s has nothing to do with the character itself).
You get to have an uneducated population who will keep voting for your friends who will in turn make you richer AND keep semi-slaves that will also be making you richer because they’ll be held hostage by the H-1B visa? Sounds like an oligarch’s wet dream to me.
Or take out thousands of dollars in student loans ya little beotch! Then spend the rest of your life trying to pay it off. And if a sitting President tries to lessen your burden, the conservative “Christian” republicans will shame you for getting a “free” education you socialist piece of garbage.
It’s not a paradox when you remember that billionaires always want things for free. They didn’t become billionaires by paying for products and services equal to what those things are worth.
Billionaires want an educated work force and they DON’T want to pay for it. They are happy to let other countries subsidize the cost of their employees by having those other countries pay for education.
Immigrants are also easier to control. A citizen can be fired, but only for a reason, and afterwards the citizen is still free to find employment with the competition. An immigrant who owes their ability to stay to a company can be much more easily disposed of with much less complication.
You made the mistake of attempting to understand them.
This guy is such a bozo…
Education system in America is very expensive, we should vote to subsidize education, it is subsidized almost in ever developed and developing country in the world
Maybe they should’ve paid taxes so we could spend them to pay teachers
Meanwhile DOGE is planning to abolish the DOE
There is no paradox. With a work visa you can’t just quit when the work conditions are terrible.
Capitalism needs poor desperate people.
If you ever wondered why they want poor people to have children, this is why. Working-class plebs which are ready to be milked are a finite resource.
Please note, 95% of “tech bros” are not CEO’s or anyone in positions of power.
More like, “We can’t hire Americans because we’ve fired most of the ones stupid enough to work for us in the first place.”
Tbf even when the company does the training, 80% of people still suck ass and can’t do shit unless it’s a bulleted list…. then they still suck somehow
Skill issue
If there are billions of dollars in student debt and not enough qualified people what does that tell you? It tells me that the system getting people into STEM isn’t working
Technically it’s what they are saying, the whole you need experience to work this entry level job. But the fact is Elon and Vivek are lying, plenty of Americans can do the jobs, but they will want a living wage and a Work/Life balance plus benefits. Where as exploited immigrant workers are happy with a cot in the corner
I don’t care if he’s on the correct side of politics, FUCK this career social media poster.
Literally their own families and they hate it.
are these the same people that are anti immigrants?
How tf is higher ed so costly in this country compared to others and yet we still need educated folks from other countries
Why pay $10,000/mo to a “retarded” and “lazy” American tech worker if you can pay $5,000/mo to a trafficker to import an H-1B migrant who will receive $2,000/mo while the trafficker keeps the other $3,000/mo .
The CEO cuts the cost per worker in half and gets a fatter bonus while the American worker gets fucked in the ass. This is the scheme pursued by Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy and David Sacks.
It’s not that they’re uneducated, it’s that they’re unmotivated. That is, if they’re capable of doing the work they know they can negotiate for a high salary and good working conditions, form a union if they have to.
I have a masters in tech and can’t get hired. The companies that need workers have unreasonable hiring criteria. I digress, but agree with OPs sentiment.
So. Did muricans finally learned that they are stupid?
Education is not the issue, despite how loud they say it.
They want an educated workforce that is also okay with being exploited. That’s why they need immigrants.