Musk and Ramaswamy expose rift with MAGA loyalists over foreign tech workers

I'd be more OK with Musk's and Ramaswamy's demands if the H1-B structure were changed so that workers could change jobs at will once here. As it is, they are effectively indentured servants, and are only (ab)used because they can lower wage costs.

Until 99% of all US tech workers are fully as employed as they want to be and can send out a resume and get multiple interviews in days, there is zero reason to hire overseas (other than trying to exploit workers). When highly educated, experienced, and qualified US tech workers can go months sending out resumes without so much as a nibble, yet corporations are onboarding as many H1Bs as they can, there is something deeply wrong with the system.

[edit; add:] And yes, there should be room for the truly exceptional people from overseas who WILL actually help the US make great progress, but they are actually being crowded out by the current corrupt exploitative H1-B process. Making it competitive so H1-B employees can leave at will for another employer (possibly after a reasonable waiting/working period of months) would also help make the system better advance the US technology position in several ways.

Edit: I would care about this a lot less if I wasn't watching so many American recent graduates of really good engineering programs struggle to land even an interview much less a job with a tech company. You can't betray people like this and not expect a vicious blowback.

So many hiring managers are biased as well

>The American Way is a complex jock-nerd dialectic (see e.g. our way of war or the Apollo Project) not some sort of drama of the diligent and gifted nerd simply overcoming jockish ignorance and sloth

Personally, I think this could be a great policy.