They need to import labor because the domestic labor pool isn’t good enough. A quieter part is that people immigrating also expect less for their outputs.
Are you and Elon saying that India’s education system and universities are just plain better than MIT, Stanford, etc? If so - why are so many studying abroad in places like Canada and Australia?
If not, then are Indians just genetically smarter than Americans, so that their pool is better?
It just seems like immigrants are willing to work more for less, so that in the future when they’re citizens, they can work less for more.
I don’t personally subscribe to that belief.
My position is more so that wealthy, powerful people stand to gain a lot by disempowering their workforce, and they’re working hard to do just that. People like Elon would love to see cheap labour and AI beset the workforce such that it had no leverage and lower wages. He has said about as much in various ways already.
I’m a little disappointed that my comment wasn’t voted down more, because I really did phrase it as my own opinion.
[1] Well, except when the country fails to invest enough in education and training. It's wrong for the UK, for example, to consistently not fund enough medical students, and make up for it by importing staff educated by third world countries.