Summary
Vivek Ramaswamy criticized American culture for prioritizing “normalcy” over excellence, which leads tech companies hiring foreign-born workers over Americans.
In a post on X, he argued that U.S. culture celebrates mediocrity and undervalues nerdiness, hard work, and academic achievement.
His comments sparked backlash across the political spectrum, with critics labeling him out of touch with American culture.
The controversy may jeopardize his standing in the Trump administration.
Americans train their kids to become engineers, but after they graduate, companies like Musk’s won’t hire them because foreign H1-B engineers work cheaper.
h1-b visas make up a vanishingly small percent of the workforce. There are plenty of reasons to hate immigrants but this ain’t one.
He didn’t say anything that implied hatred of immigrants.
Companies undercutting local workers ≠ hating immigrants.
What really sucks so hard is when you work at a company flooding the place with H-1Bs and not being able to really discuss in frank terms what they are doing. Because there are just enough people that have not really thought things through (as well as the idiots in HR) that will call you a “racist” for pointing out the scam.