Tag: foreignborn

Elon Musk has responded to a question by a tech CEO who asked whether foreign-born tech workers in the US are taking jobs away from qualified native-born Americans, challenging the idea that foreign workers are ‘stealing’ jobs in the country.
Amjad Masad, who is the CEO of Replit – an online integrated development environment (IDE) that allows users to write, run, and share code without the need for local setup – posted on X asked for an evidence to support the claim that qualified Americans are being passed over for tech jobs in favor of foreign workers.
“Genuinely curious: Are there actual instances where qualified native born Americans couldn’t get jobs in tech because foreigners took all of them? I’d be surprised if it’s true because at any given point there are hundreds of thousands of unfilled jobs in tech.”

To this, Musk replied by saying that there has always been a shortage on engineering talent in the country. “There is a permanent shortage of excellent engineering talent. It is the fundamental limiting factor in Silicon Valley.”

Sriram Krishnan faces backlash, Musk back appointment

The conversation comes at a time when there has been an uproar on social media that is purportedly triggered by the appointment of Indian-American businessman Sriram Krishnan as a White House senior policy advisor on AI by President-elect Donald Trump.
Several people of clout, including Elon Musk have supported Krishnan’s appointment while some argue that foreign workers, especially those on H-1B visas, are hired at lower wages, displacing American workers.
The “fixed pie” fallacy is at the heart of much wrong-headed economic thinking. There is essentially infinite potential for job and company creation. Think of all the things that didn’t exist 20 or 30 years ago!