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When you own a company and fire someone to cut costs nobody is gonna say anything, of course. It's the sad reality.

When you cut the company to 1/3 and keep foreigners because of their visa status, nobody is gonna say anything of course, but that says a lot about you!

I do not believe that half the company was just "overstaff". I have been in situations where 1 manager had 1 reporter/reported, but they were single cases - it can't be spread to the entire company and nobody does anything.

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> When you cut the company to 1/3 and keep foreigners because of their visa status, ... that says a lot about you!

That... you care about people regardless if they are foreigners and that you try to help those that would have the most problems if they were let go, especially as these problems are a consequence of your hiring of them?

I'm not familiar with the story, but from the way you presented it it sounds like a proper thing to do.

EDIT: not taking Musk's side, just pointing out the issue with the parent's argument.

Or… heart me out, maybe it’s because Elon knows they have the most to loose and are thus more likely to do whatever he wants to not get kicked out of the country. Elon made some statements that made his disdain for the “laptop class” quite clear. He is no saint, or genius. He’s mostly just an extremely ruthless smart man.

Sure, that is also a possible (even likely) explanation. As I said, I don't defend Musk - my opinion of him is quite low and is getting lower and lower. Just wanted to point out the trouble with the argument. Anyway.

He has finally showed the world his true self. I am happy about that - I don't want another capitalist sanctified for being a genius, which he is not. The more this becomes clearer the better for everyone.

Sorry, you're right. I was try to point to different direction: you keep foreigners because you can exploit their visa status. :)

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