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Musk says China rocks. Musk says the Chinese are smart and hard working whereas Americans are complacent and entitled, especially Californians and New Yorkers:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/31/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-china-ro...

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How would he even know, it's not like tech firms are even giving recent American graduates a shot. They hire H1B because it creates a dependency on the company.

There's no shortage of suitably skilled American candidates for software engineering positions, especially in the current job market. Companies have manufactured the illusion of a shortage to enable industrial scale visa fraud.

There is no shortage of US candidates but there is a shortage of qualified US candidates. Getting an engineering degree from an average US college doesn't mean you are a qualified engineer. In fact, most new graduates know absolutely nothing about software engineering.

It's just the market is so bad now and those tech giants don't want to give them a shot. So many experienced engineers on the job market right now. Why hiring a new grad?

The software engineering field is largely "engineering" in name only. Very few jurisdictions globally recognise software engineers as qualified engineers, but that's a separate issue.

I agree with you, and the same also applies to the other parts of the world. So the question comes down to: why so many kids are failed by our colleges. I am pretty sure those tech giants actually pay more for H-1B workers.

Doing business in China means restraining from criticizing China:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42513666

Doing business in the West means helpfully criticizing pro-labor politics here.

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