that's not really going to cost any Americans any jobs if you do that but people conflate it with the fact that although Google and Microsoft and Apple big companies if they want a top 1% engineer they have the resources to really really check to make sure they got one. You know it might require having a leg in another country where you can actually talk to people and really spend time with them and find out what's real and what isn't. But if you're a medium-sized company you might find a let's say an agency that finds people to work at your country and work. You'd say hey I want some top 1% engineers but I can't visit and I can't talk to them myself so I want you to find me some top engineers that can work over here top 1%. And then whoever you're talking to says top 1% oh yeah yeah we got plenty of them. And then they send you somebody who can barely do anything and it's too late for you to say anything and they have already made their money and by the time you cancel the project and realize that you can't talk to an agency and hire good people in India it's almost doesn't work. It's basically closer to fraud than it is to a working system. You find out that the system of hiring foreign workers is mostly fraud. That's what I learned recently.

So when people say but Scott in the real world we're getting all these Indian engineers that are not as good as engineers who can't get a job that might be true that might be true but that has to do with the broker system. If you could identify the top 1% like Elon Musk can like the big companies can then you really need to be able to get them. But if you're a small company and you're depending on somebody in another country to tell you who their top 1% are they're going to send whoever they have and they're going to charge you and if it goes wrong they'll just have another customer who doesn't know the difference next time.

So apparently 71% of Trump voters want to increase high-skilled immigration but of course they don't want to bring in people that take American jobs. And Musk says there's a permanent shortage of excellent engineering talent. It's their biggest problem. And then I saw somebody arguing with him. Somebody whose account is "I am yes you are no" that's the name of the account and said to Elon there are over 330 million people in America surely there must be enough among them to build your ultimate team. Why would you deny real Americans that opportunity by bringing foreigners here?

Now I'll tell you what Elon said but I kind of already made this argument. He said your understanding of the situation is upside down and backwards. Of course my companies and I would prefer to hire Americans and we do. That is much easier than going through the incredible painful slow work of visa process. However there's a dire shortage of extremely talented and motivated engineers in America. He said it's not about handing out opportunities from some magical hat. You don't get it. This is blindingly obvious when looking at NBA teams as the physical differences are so obvious to see. However the mental differences between humans are far bigger than the physical differences.

So he's saying what I said which is you don't understand. I'm talking about the top 1%. There's not a bunch of Americans waiting around to be hired that are in the top 1% of engineering. That's just not a thing. And if you tried to train them and then I saw other people saying but we have plenty of people who were not top engineers but you could train them. The companies should train their own employees to become top engineers. Oh man you really don't understand how the world works if you think that works. What you're going to take the person who can write code and you're going to turn them into a top 1% engineer with what your company affords? Never. It would be the rarest thing if that could ever work. No the top engineers probably from the first day of school had some kind of advantage. They were brilliant but also their parents probably were a certain kind of parents and sent them to a certain kind of school. They were identified. They got the best training over years and years and years in the best environment. No you can't take the janitor and turn him into an engineer because you've got a good training program. That's not a thing. It's just not a thing.

And then there's a huge amount of what I would say is overt very obvious racism that entered into the conversation. There's way more racism against Indians and Indian-Americans than I was expecting. Like when it all comes out in a conversation like this it's a little bit horrifying honestly. And I'm going to tell you something again. Have you ever spent time with a top 1% Indian or Indian-American technical person? I have. It's incredible. It's incredible. And I don't want to name names but you know some people I would name probably right not necessarily engineers but definitely top 1%ers. And if you're thinking oh I don't want those Indians in here because they're going to change my culture again this would be a huge blind spot. Do you know what the Indians living in America want to do? Assimilate like crazy. I'm not going to tell you who says this but there's some prominent Indian-American who jokes about just trying to be as white as he can possibly be. I mean he says it jokingly but he has no interest in taking Indian culture to America. You won't meet I don't think you'll meet an Indian in America who says you know what America has some advantages but I'd really like to bring more of the Indian stuff over here. Now they might want to wear the clothes for one generation. They certainly want to eat their own food which by the way is awesome. Indian food not it's not for everybody but personally I think it's amazing.

You don't understand everything is an assumption that doesn't hold if you're talking about the top 1%. If I dropped into your conversation any top 1% Indian or Indian-American you wouldn't even know you were talking to an Indian. You wouldn't even know. You would just think wow this guy or this gal are like super smart and you would be fascinated and you would want to hire them for your company. You're thinking about the not 1%. If we brought in a bunch of people in the bottom half of capabilities well yeah that's a big problem and maybe you've met some people who are not at the top 1%. You said to yourself we don't really need more of these do we? Well maybe you're right but that's not what anybody's talking about. We're talking about the top 1%. You sit in a room with any of the top 1%ers and you will just walk away impressed. That's it. That's the whole story.

All right I saw somebody say to that conversation online somebody with the title Unfiltered Truth that's the name of their X handle and after Elon said what I just read to you he said I used to have some faith in Elon but after this post I'm done. The mask is off. Elon supports erasing the culture and ethnic identity of America to help grow his bank account. He's parasitic and destructive. I don't think you could understand less what's going on here. Again the Indian engineers they assimilate so fast and they want to and they do it really well so no that's a ridiculous comment.

I would also like to describe the alternative. So let's say we just close it to all engineers. Game that out for me. What's the future look like in your view if we just closed all immigration and didn't hire anybody from India or any other country? What would that look like? What's plan B? Well plan B is the end of America as far as I can tell. If you're not hiring the best engineers somebody else is and eventually they'll catch up to you and whoever has the most economic clout will have the best military. They'll start using it. America's dominance in the world would be fairly quickly disappeared maybe in one generation. So it's sort of a one generation in the toilet for America if we don't really really try hard to get the top 1% engineers from other countries.

All right apparently Indiana University is teaching a course that says that the white people are inherently oppressors because of their race and sex and religion and apparently you're divided into teams in one of the required classes and if you're a white Christian male you're automatically labeled an oppressor. All right don't send your kids to Indiana University. Apparently it's just a garbage university. It must be populated with idiots and racists. Don't go there. Just don't go to Indiana University. Sounds like they are just lost and racist.

Of course you saw that there was a plane crash the other day in Azerbaijan a plane and you may have seen the video where it seemed to be going up before it went down and then it crashed and then they showed pictures of it with strange holes in the hull and I looked at the strange holes based on the pictures and I said oh it's obvious that there was shrapnel and that the shrapnel was from the outside in and you could tell from the holes that something from the outside pushed to the inside because they look like bullet holes that indented. If the explosion had come from the inside the holes would be opposite. So I'm no aviation