Context !
What It's Like to Work for Elon Musk - Genius, Chaos, and Burnout (techiegamers.com) :
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42574496
And
US culture breeds 'laziness' and 'mediocrity (telegraph.co.uk)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42574238
In particular :
> “It comes down to this: do you want America to WIN or do you want America to LOSE,” Mr Musk posted on X. “If you force the world’s best talent to play for the other side, America will LOSE. End of story.”
> The world’s richest person later clarified, however, that he only advocated bringing in the top “0.1 per cent of engineering talent”.
It's funny, looks like, at a meta level this also explains both my burning hatred for Twitter (even before Musk) and why Musk doesn't give a fuck about this context issue :
> “Are people really dumb enough to think they can convince Elon Musk, an immigrant to the United States who has generated untold wealth and national security advantage for our economy and nation out of thin air, that high skilled immigration is bad for Americans? Like, seriously?” Mr Nelson wrote.
> “My tolerance for subtards is limited,” Mr Musk replied.
I can certainly see how this philosophy can work wonders at his level. And even produce tremendous improvements for *everyone : an invention has a one-time cost, but a "forever" benefit.
Still, even Musk needs a society that is liberal enough to produce the kind of people that can reach for the stars, and an environment pristine enough that something like an industrial civilization is possible. He would do well to not jeopardize these...