Elon Musk - Dude, what are you doing

[@karinschott]

I am a teacher in an alternative Ed program. Every administration passes down a new mandate. No child left behind, common core, whole language reading instruction. The pay isn’t great. Most of my students come to me with high adverse childhood scores, mental illness. It’s not simply disinvestment in education, it’s disinvestment in our kids. Then those who do make it to college are burdened with debt. What about any of this benefits anyone?

[@SchoolforHackers]

Simple: our debt enriches the rich.

[@immortalasirpa6006]

Republicans only pretend to care about kids and only pretend to be pro-life. But at the end of the day, they butcher pregnant mothers and force children to give birth to their own little brothers and sisters. They are lost in moral obscenities. They don't know up from down anymore.

[@TheVeggiekat]

The system is designed to benefit corporations not citizens.

[@TheVeggiekat]

Bless you

[@Chumpsdookiediaper]

It benefits our corp overlords.

[@WilliamofKent]

The reality isn’t that there aren’t enough “smart” American engineers and programmers, it’s that these business owners don’t want to pay the salaries or provide the benefits, remote work and time off that these high skilled American citizens demand.

[@hawkpodcasts]

Exactly this.

[@guppy0536]

Guess we are in wrong country 😢

[@batcollins3714]

What "high skilled Americans"? Have you listened to MAGA and Republican voters? They don't know anything. They are incredibly uneducated. If they ever travel outside the US most of them still think they can use dollars!!!!!

[@PTG327]

That comes down to corporate greed which you can't legislate without becoming a different system of government.

[@edfhobbies556]

CORRECT !!! **THERE IS NO IT SHORTAGE !!*** WSJ - "IT Unemployment Hits 6% Amid Overall U.S. Jobs Growth"

[@goodmusemusic]

My popcorn tastes even better watching them battling each other.

[@magdelinem6962]

Well...😂😂😂😂😂

[@sandyn3384]

Let the infighting begin..🍿

[@ketosandiego3126]

☕️🍿😉

[@youaresoft-ee4ub]

thank god for trump

[@WeWokeTheGiants]

@@goodmusemusic Why be happy about this? You're losing your jobs and careers to cheap foreigners too.

[@russellsehn9566]

Now MAGA is calling MAGA morons. Truth hurts huh

[@michellewalters4484]

They eventually eat their own...

[@faithgeater2845]

Just, wow!

[@michellewalters4484]

@faithgeater2845 Where do they learn respect if not from their parents?

[@suehowie152]

The tech right think their people are too dumb to train..😊

[@macm2373]

I’m loving every bit of this drama.😂😂😂

[@StarShipGray]

Sort of love these people being told they’re stupid by the same people they hired to destroy our education system.

[@hawkpodcasts]

Poetry in motion 🤣

[@SimWolfe]

If they can past their own bullsnot, it's going to be interesting when the light bulb goes off in the non wealthy MAGA.

[@MKSense1]

They know that ,so they want to destroy USA education system so they will be forced to bring their tech people from overseas.

[@youaresoft-ee4ub]

LIBERALS took over the education system, this is no mystery, and the right wing are going to now take it back. thank god.

[@peg9202]

Yup. Let’s get rid of the Department of Education. Let’s see how badly we can destroy the education system. Former teacher here. So glad I am retired. Couldn’t do it. I’d be fired for saying something “unacceptable” about banning books. I’d probably buy then and put them on my classroom shelves.

[@chashue6032]

It is easier to claim teachers are slackers and lacking than for parents to admit their bundle of joy is lacking or the parents are too cheap to properly fund education.

[@MKSense1]

@@chashue6032 Education is expensive in USA. It is just for those who is running it .Those who run it are just businesses. They don't care about outcome and if it is done properly for the future. How it is that the best Universities are in USA but you don't have proper qualified tech and engineering . This is quite a mystery.

[@lopezb]

@@chashue6032 The politicians' and FOX "news" propaganda made people so angry they can't see straight.

[@youaresoft-ee4ub]

the education system is a mess due to liberals. this is fact. we are here it fix

[@lisadambrosio2255]

Age discrimination in High Tech is real! Happened to my husband at 57. They just don’t want to pay us. 😡

[@JRead0691]

It probably has more to do with cheaper labor. For example. During the early 2000's, Programming was the #1 degree and pretty much everyone was graduating with it. Since the potential employee pool expanded dramatically, it made sense for companies to fire older employees that had to be continually paid more vs a fresh graduate making starter pay. Every 2 years they would fire their employees and hire new ones to keep overhead down. Its not fair for sure, but thats capitalism... It just means we need a better system or a more regulated one.

[@sierrawander7108]

Tesla layoffs are always the senior as in those with the most compensation. Three or four months later Tesla then goes on a hiring drive.

[@eskie7162]

My daughter’s work at usps , can’t tell ya the stories, one daughter tells me…..how people can’t even address an envelope ( to & from), where the stamp is placed, come in and think they’re DMV, won’t read the instruction’s, for return’s of their item’s…..want her to fill out their info. on certain form’s, which all the above is a…..no, that’s the customer’s responsibility…..people are truly uneducated, but yet “ entitled and demanding”….

[@patthenry3568]

Fall of the Roman empire, redeux.

[@SuperMickyChow]

Lol - calling people uneducated when you can't even use an apostrophe correctly...

[@eskie7162]

@ you must have been triggered, if all you respond to is an apostrophe…..

[@SuperMickyChow]

@eskie7162 Triggered? No. Just laughing at the irony of *you* calling *anyone* uneducated

[@eskie7162]

@ go take your “ pettiness”, somewhere else…..move on maga

[@melindagreen687]

EFF ELON AND VIVEK, AS WELL AS, TRUMP

[@MingTheMerciless-xs5kb]

You got grifted easily. They groomed you for years to vote against your own interests and you feel for it hook, line and sinker.

[@youaresoft-ee4ub]

spoken like a true liberal sukker

[@Binsel22]

I’m a teacher. We can’t fill positions because there’s a shortage. There’s a shortage because of all the mandates, bipartisan disrespect, school shootings, so talking about FAFO: just wait a few years! Unless something changes and we get more people to go into education it going to get worse.

[@sdilluminatigrandfounder3807]

I taught at the college level, and always thought I would teach k-12 after I retired. It has changed too much, and frankly, I don't want to work in a dangerous job. Plus, they punish you financially for going back. Substituting used to be a good retirement job too. It's not anymore.

[@peterherrera7566]

@@sdilluminatigrandfounder3807 After retiring, I will most likely teach at a JC. No way am I dealing with disrespect and violence after this tour of duty.

[@patthenry3568]

The PLAN is to make it worse. The plan is to destroy free public education in favor of free PRIVATE religious/hivemind education for the wealthy ONLY. Then for wealthy males, only. And the wealthy will be fully omnipotent. They really already are. No consequences, no supervision, no liability. No moral foundation....just jebus.

[@ArtFlowersBeeze8815]

We need lots of teachers in Canada. Sure it's a long time to get full time, but at least you would work all the time as part time. Especially in the north.

[@eileen.333]

You need to be paid much better too!

[@LindaDianeBroomhead-eu2ry]

I believe it all boils down to wages. Tech doesn't want to pay American wages!

[@mE-zx7pt]

But they want to charge American prices.

[@cathichristian4142]

I live near Silicon Valley in California. Many people with degrees can't get jobs in technology in this area. The companies are contracting en mass with out of the country contractors to fill positions. These jobs are not open to the public and certainly not to Americans looking for work. I am pro-union that want to protect our American jobs. This is what Biden wants and what I want too. I am a retired 70 year old, white female, software engineer. There is no way I could get a job today in my field as a young person. My heart hurts for our young people struggling to make ends meet. I am a real estate agent now and I am seeing tons of people being brought into our country taking jobs and buying houses. As usual, the right, focused on brown people crossing the border trying to flee from horrific conditions as the "real" problem with immigrants coming into this country. Our border is not the problem, it's greedy oligarchs.

[@Deep3rShadeSofHouSe]

Not just tech. No industry wants to pay respectable wages. $20 an hour is poverty wages.

[@LindaDianeBroomhead-eu2ry]

@Deep3rShadeSofHouSe that is very true!

[@reformedstoic1581]

Get the left and right attacking eachother while billionaire technocrats hire 3rd worlders as slave wages. This country is on the chopping block, voting left wouldn't have saved it.

[@davidanderson6100]

I see so many parallels between ancient Rome and modern-day America. it's actually pretty scary. The decline has started folks, poor education, poor health care, out of control personal and federal debt.

[@guppy0536]

Hopefully I'll be gone by time of implosion

[@marylaidlaw9883]

Also of note, both Rome and Egypt cut off immigration.

[@willieverusethis]

Not to mention overextension of military power and imperial reach.

[@Melrose51653]

No, you don't.

[@jimmcconnell7328]

And the average lifespan of a nation like America is 300-340 years. America is now 248 years old. And that last fifty will see a rapid decline. That is why sharks like Trump and Elon Musk are making an appearance in the political game.

[@ultrametric9317]

There has NEVER been a shortage of tech people here. We old heads were battered by age discrimination and H1B fraud on a massive scale. I am now retired but in the latter part of my so-called career, it became nearly impossible to even get an interview. My last big job, everyone on my team was H1B - most of them spectacularly incompetent. They are warm bodies here to do grunt work that some American could be doing, but the corporations do not want to pay Americans - so they created this fiction of a tech personnel shortage. My skills are completely current and I could walk into any number of jobs this moment and succeed. But I have zero chance of getting a job because I am in my 60s and I am American.

[@SchoolforHackers]

As a retired comp sci professor, I have to completely agree. I’ve lived through three IT collapses, and I strongly advise anyone to stay the hell away from the field. Look out for yourself first.

[@karentruett5444]

Then they downsized us, get rid of the higher paychecks.

[@bubstacrini8851]

" most of them spectacularly incompetent"... sometimes there is no substitute for experience & creativity

[@bobfg3130]

They aren't hiring older people in other countries too. You need to know the latest "tech" if you want a job, something that is in demand and they NEED you. The H1B visa guys weren't nearly that incompetent as you claim though. Nice try.

[@bobfg3130]

​@@bubstacrini8851 That's what the H1B visa is for, for experience and creativity.

[@lauracrepeau8720]

Thanks for the shout-out to teachers. Retired this year after 24 years. Grateful not to be in that mix.

[@floief]

The investment this nation makes in educating it's children is appalling. It wasn't always like this. Decades ago, I attended a very small, rural school. Before I ever left elementary grades I had been offered chemistry, geometry, algebra, marine biology, English literature..etc..all as after-school activities. They provided transportation on top of it. Between my sports activities and extra classes I went to school in the dark of morning and came home in the dark of evening and I loved it. Over the decades I've watched them "fix" what wasn't broken mostly in the name of budgetary concerns. This had me questioning motive. Frankly, it still does.

[@lopezb]

Imagine an idiot like GW Bush thinks he can "fix" education with "No Child Left Behind" which actually meant "All Children Left Behind" because of Test Test Test...

[@jeff_725]

MAGA base: "You don't train us." Tech Bros: "We can't fix stupid."

[@ShineOnBenevolentSun]

Until their culture of anti-intellectualism is changed, I wouldn't want to even try to teach them. Their mindset is fixed, not growth. Change is the only constant in reality, and yet Conservatism is resistance to change, ergo, reality and education obviously has a Liberal bias and should therefore be discarded.

[@peacheswilliams4539]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@Merriwether-w8k]

@@ShineOnBenevolentSun well said

[@kathychatterton5623]

Any time you expect someone to train you or feed you, you are screwed. And even if you had gotten yourself trained, you wouldn’t be hired because you cost too damned much money. Used to work with a great nurse, who had been an engineer, he and a lot of his coworkers had their jobs outsourced and couldn’t get another in his field. So he got to pay for two educations to have one job.

[@Merriwether-w8k]

@@kathychatterton5623 Shortly we may all be able to live longer - at least to 120 - so the expectation will be that all of us will have more than one career over our lifetimes - and maybe that's good

[@KristinHa]

Hey MAGA, This is what you get. All that hate and disdain you have had towards higher education and education in general, teachers, professors, etc. This is on you and your lack of educating yourselves to (in the very least) vote responsibly.

[@MicroBrewsRule]

Add to that, people who home school their kids that have no business homeschooling their, or anyone else's, kids.

[@peachion2]

They focus too much energy on what bathroom kids use.

[@denisemcdougal6445]

Totally agree!!!

[@bjh1284]

Their mom's home school them to teach them about Jesus and to keep the public schools from performing gender-reassignment surgery on them during the lunch break. LOL.

[@nevg2067]

@@KristinHa ironic that the Dems lost because they sold out their base by trying too hard to be Republican lite lol

[@TitaniumDR1]

All the Republicans in my area always vote against any school referendum because it'll cost them like 50 bucks a year. Local middle school just cut 16 positions because of it. Classes are being combined. Social studies and science are now one class. George Carlin said they want people just smart enough to pull the levers and do the paperwork. Here it is.

[@icebergrose8955]

Education has fallen behind. I'm in NZ and my granddaughter just started to learn coding. She's 7.

[@TitaniumDR1]

@icebergrose8955 I'm glad for your granddaughter. I'm lucky in the sense that I am highly educated and my son is very smart. But not everybody has the opportunities my son has. That isn't fair. We need to compete. We need to educate our people. A strong middle class is the backbone of the United States.

[@icebergrose8955]

@TitaniumDR1 I agree. There's no way I could train my little girl in tech. US needs tech educators in primary school. But they want to dismantle the education dept so how will that ever happen?

[@ciobalina7445]

@@TitaniumDR1 Well, then maybe you shouldn't vote into power rich people who want to remove the Department of Education.

[@TitaniumDR1]

@ciobalina7445 Why would you think I did that? Or do you mean the country?

[@Newofficegirl]

They are outsourcing the tech jobs to the Philippines and India. I have seen this personally. Oftentimes the work is delivered slower and with lower quality but no one cares. They only care about the cost savings.

[@ciobalina7445]

They will care if other countries rise up.

[@WilliamofKent]

Right - Musk recently posted on X, "Investing in Americans is actually hard. Really hard. It costs money and time and effort to make a person productive. It’s a short term net loss. It’s much easier to bring in skilled workers who might not do quite a good a job [sic], but will work for a fraction of the cost and be happy just to be here.”

[@lopezb]

Elon supports education in China and India and the Phillippines. Just not in the US!!!!

[@isthatyoursomnomnom]

He's accelerating his own end.

[@hawkpodcasts]

Most definitely. In his world nobody tells him no, nobody disagrees with him - therefore he has no filters and says/does whatever he wants with no consequence. He is probably very confused right now.

[@tonymedahunsi4625]

@@hawkpodcastsThe hubris

[@edfhobbies556]

**OR** establishing how in control he is, Benedict Donald doesn't give a damn down stream as long as he then his biilionaires gain at the expense of the working middle.

[@michellecleek3997]

​@hawkpodcasts I think that there's a very high probability that he's been confused for his ENTIRE life, Hawk.

[@bobfg3130]

​@@michellecleek3997 Look up Musk's first attempt at buying ICBMs from Russia to launch satellites in space with them.

[@KLF-1057]

It’s not just the war on education. Visa holders coming here for jobs will work for MUCH less. As much as 40-50% less. And interns as much as 60% less than tech workers born in the U.S., or tech workers born elsewhere but who have gained their citizenship. Once again with the Trump tribe, it’s ALL about the $$$$….

[@SaltyOwlAlmanac]

It’s about the money AND the control. H1B workers are captive and much more likely to be overworked due to their visa status. This is what he did at twitter when he took over. He made everyone work stupid long hours on arbitrary deadlines and sleep at the office in makeshift dorms … or get fired, which for a foreign worker, means being yeeted out of the country.

[@Trick37MP]

@@KLF-1057 Actually, those that have H1B and L1 visas are required to be paid at least $60,000, and most get much more, such as 6 figures. There are certain criteria that the positions have to hold, including pay and a minimum of a bachelor degree intheir field.

[@jimmcconnell7328]

@@Trick37MP As you were saying, there are certain criteria to be paid a 6 figure income. How many of these foreign tech workers are going to be holding a bachelors degree? There is the rub. We don’t know.

[@Trick37MP]

@@jimmcconnell7328 I know....every single one of them. Education in India is essentially free. USCIS won't approve the H1B or L1 visas unless they have that degree, AND either a US-based bachelor or mastets degree, or a US education equivalency evaluation to show that their foreign degree is equal to a US bachelor degree at a minimum.

[@jimmcconnell7328]

@@Trick37MP Thanks for providing this information. I wasn’t aware such higher education was free in India.

[@Ozarkhillbillyhippy]

Physics, Geology, Astronomy and PLTW certified teacher. I love science and teaching. I didn’t study Calculus 3, particle physics and go on remote geological digs to be heckled by science deniers. Teaching high school is stressful as hell. MAGA was the last straw in my career. I left.

[@hawkpodcasts]

I cannot imagine how that already difficult job shifted with the onset of MAGA

[@christinegivens9048]

What crying shame.

[@PTG327]

@@Ozarkhillbillyhippy That is an incredible loss to the education system. 😟

[@lopezb]

Very sad.....

[@janice7425]

Two yrs ago I was laid off from my tech job. I’m a white woman. None of my Indian colleagues were laid off.

[@dennisfeldman7799]

I guess maga hates women more than immigrants. Go figure.

[@JustXavier]

@@janice7425 file an EEOC complaint. Sue for discrimination and wrongful termination

[@ruserious67]

They just don't want to pay, the US salary and benefits.

[@joemartinez-673]

AMERICA'S HERO'S 🌎🇺🇸 VOTED BLUE 🗳 FOR HARRIS AND WALZ 😎🤟

[@noname-by3qz]

*heros

[@Boomette53]

@@noname-by3qz ** HEROES 🙄🙄🙄

[@boholde2757]

Watch Kimmel for any length of time and you might see a segment where they ask very simple political/geographic/cultural/ect. questions of random people on the street. It’s amazing. Americans are sooo lost. Many of them can’t even find America on a map of the world.

[@bwin3401]

But they know something something something about Noah’s ark and such.

[@donhoverson6348]

Those segments mean nothing. They could just edit out all the people who answer the questions correctly and then it suddenly seems like everyone is an idiot.

[@Stefan_Van_pellicom]

@@donhoverson6348It is said that not much editing was done on these segments…

[@lopezb]

@@donhoverson6348 They seem normal and intelligent until they are asked a question....

[@pauladouglass6910]

Most Americans can't even count change back from a purchase.

[@Amourfati-z4b]

So true, I taught my son how to count back change at 7. Its pretty sad & then they go after libraries, which can be a sanctuary for some students😔

[@RealBradMiller]

I can do it, but I always double check. Always. Probably from childhood abuse in a dysfunctional family system... Lol

[@RealBradMiller]

​@@Amourfati-z4bYup, I hung out in the library every morning and afternoon, sometimes even during lunch, and then one day they stopped people from doing that. 😑😒 Still, can name every librarian I had, pretty much, or at least picture them in my mind! Actually had a beer at a microbrewery with my English teacher and librarian just before the pandemic.

[@danielbarbour3501]

Change? Most give a blank look at you if you try to use cash vs a card

[@SophisticatedBob]

Hey, you take that back! Everybody knows people need change...changes is the only absolut....wait, you meant like coins and stuff. Nevermind.

[@Laura-x4j6x]

We have plenty of talent in the county. They DON'T want to work for Musk. I just read an article about these highly skilled people who work for him are treated like shite. Its well known in the industry. Elon and Vivek left this little detail out And yes, we need to sure up our public education system and provide free higher education in this country.

[@elfenvine]

Totally true about Age Discrimination. Had the same when applying for IT jobs. Then add being female and overweight. BTW this reminds me of the whole Disney layoff of 250 IT employees in 2015 to Temp Visa workers from India. Add insult to injury, in order to get severance and bonus they had to retrain their replacements for up to 3 months! Talk about insult to injury and humiliation!

[@KristiBranstetter]

The problem is that red states have cut funding to public schools so badly over the past four decades. I had a relative who was a political lobbyist for the Kansas NEA for three decades.

[@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531]

Yes, and all that's done is hasten the decrepitude of those places.

[@Renee-xo8hk]

@@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531 and required blue states to support them financially

[@johnledington6242]

Like rats in a sack

[@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531]

Like spiders in a jar.

[@arthurdunger4223]

@@johnledington6242 Vipers in a box

[@eonarts]

There are PLENTY of Americans fully educated and very good at engineering in tech. The problem is that they don’t pay H1B1 visa people the same. First off they don’t want to hire American women, even though they pay them less than US white men, US Asian men and white H1B1 men & Asian H1B1 men they do NOT want to hire women or black engineers. I know it’s against the law but you would be blackballed from the industry if you brought a suit. Plus it’s hard to prove in a court of law. Then there’s the ageism. They don’t want women over 45 but they start laying off around 55 (except weirdly Oracle, there are lots of women and they allow them to retire out in their 60’s)

[@mael6834]

I guess we need more bibles and god in schools to teach those engineers maff.

[@petechaklas6168]

Hahahaha, so true. 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿

[@SchoolforHackers]

Maff, love it

[@threetreasures7698]

‘Maff’ skills - too funny! And that is probably how Magas spell it.

[@reformedstoic1581]

Lets pretend it's Christians fault when the universities have all become cultural marxist indoctrination camps.

[@bwin3401]

You got it. 🎉

[@diane4806]

There are plenty of skilled engineers in this country for them to hire. They don't want to pay people.

[@waffletornado]

Elon: we need to attacking education funding! Also Elon: there are just simply not enough smart Americans in Silicon Valley that we need. Lmao, let them eat each other.

[@tonyrusso9088]

I worked in engineering R&D for almost 40 years and I worked with many foreign-born engineers, mainly Indian and Chinese. They were hard-working, eager, innovative and quite competent. Many of them were brought here on H-1B visas and were essentially chained to contract houses that worked as their "representatives", who essentially controlled their housing, work schedule and pay rates. They had great educations from their home countries and filled the void for cheap, highly technical personnel in positions that Americans couldn't fill. This amounted to indentured servitude. The contract houses would send these people back to their country of origin upon project completion or when the contract expired, without any chance of applying for US citizenship. I agree that the lack of STEM education in America, coupled with the want of CHEAP, competent technical personnel has definitely help cause this. American industry, coupled with the Republican's war on decent education is doing it's best to exploit foreign labor and not even offer a path to citizenship for these people. And then industry complains about why they cannot get decent 'Murican' help.

[@Johnwashere-dt2ov]

I have a similar career history. The same MAGA that now are baying at the moon demanding that technical jobs are given to Americans (USA), are the very same folk that are openingly anti intellectual, despise education and educators, most probably are Flat Earthers, and mostly likely don’t believe we have landed on the moon. It took 40 years to arrive at this point, it will take another 40 to reverse and in the meantime, those nations (mostly non western) will surpass USA in education and producing a strong technical workforce.

[@megmathisen9072]

FAFO… this all makes me so happy!!! So much so I went and read numerous articles about it after watching your video. 🎉🎉

[@lemuello664]

Who could have predicted that shooting myself in the foot would hamper my progress down the road?

[@littlemoonmaker1220]

It isn’t the education system that is failing. Coding is not hard. It’s logical thinking. The problem is there is no pay for Americans. I am a product of H1B. I’m very technical and highly skilled. I lost my first job to India and my second to Poland.

[@peacheswilliams4539]

The education system in America has been getting defunded by Republicans for decades...The COST of higher education is through the ROOF...

[@mitch_s]

Not to mention, teachers are now expected to be experts in how to handle a weapon to stop shooters coming to the building that we don’t want to take guns away from. Cause you know ‘merica

[@danielbarbour3501]

Lets be crystal clear - they want more H1B visas because those people will accept lower engineering pay...(I'm sensitive to this because I, before I retired, was an Electrical Engineer (though mostly programming the last 15 years)).

[@bwin3401]

Let’s be crystal clear. They’re not qualified at any salary. At least the foreigners have a fighting chance to do well eventually.

[@ciobalina7445]

@@danielbarbour3501 Most people with half a brain understand this. I live in Eastern Europe and know that this is the case. I just fail to understand why people actually thought electing billionares and millionaires was going to help them rise out of poverty. These people don't care. You need politicians who are impartial and will enact laws which help the majority of the population, a population which is NOT rich and has other needs than the rich. Politicians should not concern themselves with whether these policies help the rich become richer, but with whether they will help the regular citizen become more educated, have a path to a good paying job that respect human rights, have good health care etc. There is a conflict of interest if you vote into political power rich people

[@-emmacaton-2905]

"Corporate society takes care of everything. And all it asks of anyone, all it's ever asked of anyone, ever, is not to interfear with management decisions." Rollerball

[@TeRiFic05]

Interfere is exactly what we need to do.

[@ciobalina7445]

​@@TeRiFic05 The time for that was when you voted. You voted against middle class people's education rights and work rights, you get no help from government. Let the companies take everything from you for being morons and voting against those that actually wanted to help you, the democrats.

[@svetlovska]

Excellent reference

[@Susan-kz8dd]

Another reality is that they hire people from India and other countries because they simply pay them less. They can treat them as chattel, and they don't have to outlay for benefits. And here's the difference, while many of us liberals that support policies of Bernie Sanders and other people we use words and try to speak to people and try to discuss things in a cool collected situation the same cannot be said of the ultra right wing. A lot of those people are armed to the teeth and will not hesitate to use those arms. Just saying...

[@paulcaradonna5029]

I practiced employment-based immigration law and said this very thing 12 years ago! In the right-wing onslaught to privatize everything, including education, and the heyday of late-stage capitalism and neoliberal economics, the US off outsourced and off shored its education system to Asia (much like its manufacturing sector).

[@bobfg3130]

Asia had an education system. There's nothing American there.

[@shilpab9685]

Asian countries have always had a very strong schooling system . Science and STEM degrees are highly sought after degree in most Asian countries.

[@jcwoodman5285]

And that's the rift we need to exploit! One group wants ZERO foreign workers while the other wants to continue exploiting the economy to their advantage but has no domestic pool of competent workers...

[@Voltair101]

I solved the mystery ! The engineers from India work for pennies on the dollar.

[@sharonmyers7016]

The civil whar that I saw coming is headed in a different direction. What a surprise!

[@debbiehesketh5830]

This is the best Christmas present I’ve had yet . I thought the civil war would happen but not in my wildest dreams did I think it would start this quickly 😂

[@WhisperingWillows-o8s]

I’ve worked at major corporations that had teams of like 30 H1B workers from India and the only thing they did was collect a paycheck and fleece the company. Good luck to you Elon lol.

[@peachion2]

My brother retired from teaching science 20 years ago. His biggest challenge was that kids got to his high school science class who could not read the text book. That was 20 years ago.

[@TeRiFic05]

I have been sitting here patiently waiting for this to be a topic for MAGA. I was recently ‘retired’ from the largest consulting company in the world. Most people are not familiar with the name but they are bigger than Deloitte and EY. These companies have been working with the poorest countries for decades to educate and employ these workers for the lowest salaries. I remember in the 90s that American workers were up in arms about how tech was getting offshored. The immigrants that are‘stealing your jobs’ are not who you think and they are making you dumber. Good luck America.

[@b.l.8611]

Tech Bros versus the Uneducated Masses! Hilarious 😂😂

[@generalputnam2990]

We've seen this for decades. See "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life," Richard Hofstadter, Pulitzer, 1964

[@spyderdogg6248]

We have the tech people available, just don’t work as cheap

[@noname-by3qz]

Honestly I'd like to live in another country where I can't understand a word. My brain hurts because of hearing crazy uninformed nonsense.

[@Boisebodymechanic]

I love your hair! I have the same out of control thick lion's mane. Ive learned to embrace it. Your power is in your hair. Lol Keep up the good work. I've been boosting you on Bluesky.

[@robbiekop7]

Cowardly Lion from The Wizard Of Oz 😂

[@heathermccall8015]

​@@robbiekop7 Why are there 50 subs on your nothing channel?

[@MJDiNatale-yp2te]

Absolutely on the hair! I’ve been a barber for many years, know great hair when I see it! 💈

[@theConquerersMama]

He has gorgeous hair

[@robbiekop7]

Inflation🎈😩

[@w5winston]

This is 40 years of attacking public schools in the United States. We used to LEAD in these areas.

[@MikeC2K10]

You also have to understand what Ramaswamy and Musk mean by "talent" - they want workers devoted to the corporation, who won't complain about stuff like work / life balance or 60 hour weeks with no overtime. Workers dependent on their corporate sponsor to remain in the country are ideal. Hence, workers here on H-1B visas are automatically more talented.

[@stephaniechampion7260]

My son’s 11th grade history teacher is maga. We are doomed in Florida.

[@cxengel]

College financing is so predatory! Why can't people understand we are only hurting ourselves by not investing in education??

[@ciobalina7445]

They don't care. They're too selfish.

[@jackdimm]

Because education tells them that the way they grew up is harmful, their feefees got hurt. Add to it that one of those highly educated people was a black man in the White House and they just lost their s..t. No longer content to silently dismantle public education with charters and vouchers, they embraced with full throats the abolition of public education altogether. Just like the swimming pools they were forced to "share" in the 60s, they'd rather shut it all down.

[@peacheswilliams4539]

Because we care more for Wallstreet/ hedge fund compaines and Big Oil than we do educating our children for the future..

[@Jogie100]

It all started with charter school. Anything that is for profit should automatically be suspect

[@frostwalker3202]

Cue The Leopards...

[@jameschapman6559]

H-1B visa is needed for cheap labor for those large companies. Otherwise they would have to pay a living wage. The American education system got screwed under Bush policy of "no child left behind."

[@LizPresley-q2z]

Exactly!!

[@jsdutky]

It's not about education, and it never has been. It's about paying less for technical people and having absolute control over your labor force (because the H1b visa is attached to the job, not the worker). American workers are not "too dumb" to do the jobs these billionaires want to hire foreigners for, the just want to be paid what they're worth, and they can leave whenever they want because they don't have to fear deportation if they quit (or get fired). If this were about education you would see lots of H1b workers coming from European countries, and you don't. Instead most H1b workers come from India and China, and it's because the employer gets to pay them less (or gets to skimp on raises, even if they were initially hired at a competitive pay rate, which comes to the same thing in the long run).

[@terikoenig4498]

The Republican war on education has been so destructive. I’m so glad I am retired.

[@FunnyFallGuy]

Thanks for acknowledging teachers. I'm one, and you're right... it's definitely a challenge.

[@julievanosdel835]

I'm soooooo jealous that you get to spend time with your fur babies.

[@garybowler5946]

We are currently awash in unemployed American programmers, tech people. The tech industry has been laying them off for 2 years. Recent graduates can't find work.

[@jjjjrrr678]

Too expensive for tech bros.

[@sdilluminatigrandfounder3807]

And they get called stupid, instead of the truth. Musk would have to pay them a living wage. THAT is why they go to other countries. Not because they can't find it here. Hawk is wrong here.

[@jrochest4642]

@@sdilluminatigrandfounder3807 EXACTLY. They don't want 'great engineers', they want cheap slaves.

[@bobfg3130]

Not really. BlueSky and threads need them to work. There are also new social media platforms popping up. The techbros aren't the smartest bunch. They don't know how to look for skills. The graduates need to put their university projects as work experience...maybe even work on some open source projects and put that code up. These guys want experience. There will be another boom for programmers. AI isn't nearly as capable as people think.

[@ShineOnBenevolentSun]

If those graduates didn't have exorbitant student debt, they wouldn't need to seek such outsized wages. Student debt is a huge driver of upward wage pressure, which is inflationary. Cheaper/free education= less expensive professional services, including medicine, law, tech & education

[@annelieskarolien]

Just sit back, relax and enjoy the show.

[@iasunflower2944]

We knew it was going to happen...and im here for it lol

[@MikeMcCreadyNYCBCN]

Most of the foreign engineers we get have received their post graduate education at US institutions. The H1B visas are needed to keep them here. I don’t disagree with you about our early education system, but US universities are still tops.

[@plebeian_egalitarian]

Who knew a political alliance of egomaniacs would fall apart 😂

[@peterbedford2610]

Big high tech was hiring h1b workers in the1980s. What lack of skilled emloyees!?!? H1b work cheap and long hours. Its a type of indentured servant.

[@dianeholland9948]

I am a teacher. We need to really overhaul our education system. I have two students in my class who are extremely good in math, yet I am holding them back because I am not supposed to challenge them. I am to teach what program I am told to teach them. I also go too fast for some students because I am to teach the program I am told to teach. I feel that we are not fixing the education program, we are destroying it!

[@Rob-v6l]

This is some of the funniest stuff I’ve seen in a while 😂

[@ethereal76]

Many years ago I watched an interview with Musk speaking on how college was not that important. It was upsetting to see an influencer say such things. A short time later, he did another interview that was held in China. He then for some reason did a 180 and told them how important it was to get an education.. Around all of this, there were many that started to make fun of others in STEM and those learning to code. Was really odd stuff to encounter to say the least.

[@drewm3401]

People here in California aren’t surprised at all. We all knew who Elon was…

[@jennifermacdonald8481]

Muskrat knows exactly what he's doing 💙🌍☮️💫

[@MrsParker477]

I'm nodding my head up and down. I'm shaking my head side to side. I need a neck brace. We are in bizarro times.

[@michellewalters4484]

So many teachers are fleeing their desired career because of the amount of disrespect that is ALLOWED against them by the school's administrators AND the students' lazy sue happy parents. I say bring back the hack paddle.

[@truegrit7697]

Wow - great point! America has indeed kicked our K-12 education to the curb. I teach at a university, and so many American students want the easy path (you know, make a mint as an "influencer"), while foreign students want marketable skills.

[@lopezb]

Great comment. I agree 100%.

[@michellewalters4484]

Dude, you love your lush hair. Can't blame you. Thank you for your message...

[@cyndyjt7571]

😂😂this is amusing

[@mael6834]

I've been lmao all morning.

[@marianned346]

The only reason they need immigrants is they can work them 24/7 and pay them crap. THAT IS THE ONLY REASON THEY NEED IMMIGRANTS.

[@peachion2]

It is also true that most Americans under 30 have very poor reading and comprehension skills. It takes a year of remedial education to get college freshmen up to speed.

[@TheKimieko]

Thank you ❤

[@gillsmoke]

mmmm, that h1-b1 thing is more about direct control of employees than actual skills. Tech companies LOVE the tech visa thing because it suppresses wages like nothing else.

[@bwin3401]

Nope. Too many jobs going unfilled seeking qualified individuals of any stripe.

[@J_Ghotier]

Tech Right vs the Double Negative Right 🤯

[@waverideraus4882]

Like seagulls squabbling over potato chips

[@terryandrews7271]

I'm 73 I ate part of a gummy a while ago I'm getting sleepy but i have to come out before i put the phone down i haven't heard the word rube used at home and i couldn't hardly listen to the whole Clip because I was laughing. Happy New Year I hope

[@brigittebengtson8514]

I love your laugh! Reminds me of the late Ray Liotta 😊

[@DB-yr6nw]

🎼🎵🎶 Under my thumb🎶🎵

[@deborahcrain3739]

Well Done

[@JohnIrwin-w2v]

Are these white jobs? Black jobs? Brown jobs? Red or yellow? Asking for a friend.

[@rodfrost3]

I think the arrival of yes men are described in gravitational black hole physics somewhere?😂

[@angelicafaith2532]

They talked about deporting immigrants cant they deport these two?

[@Sagiterrian77]

It’s not the government’s fault. It’s on the family level. It’s all about attitude.

[@lisawhitehall1870]

Love your giggle..you would be fun to hang out with ..and I like fishing! Thank you for your posts.

[@martingrey2231]

Daryl Hall called. He wants his hair back 🤔