They clearly figured that the MAGAnaut conspiracy was made up of, exclusively, sub-GED knuckledraggers who were infinitely gullible, and that such would be pleased as punch if the over-educated, over-paid city folk took one in the neck. Well... turns out, not so much. A fair portion of MAGAWorld are a cut above sub-GED knuckledragger, and expected that they'd be the beneficiaries of the various crackdowns on the immigrants and Elites and the various tax cuts. After all, they're the deserving ones. They didn't expect to be in the firing line of the ever-greedy Musk Ox and soonToBePresident Huey Long 2024© and that Indian Guy.
There is no honour among thieves. As it ever were.
"If you want your TEAM to win the championship, you need to recruit top talent wherever they may be. That enables the whole TEAM to win," Musk wrote on X.Of course, the winner isn't the TEAM, but the owner, remember??? Cheap labour is the theme. As it always has been, since New England manufacture moved to the slave holding South. "We're in the Money".
It bears repeating: these Indians, and others, come to US university to get the BEST engineering/medical/etc. education; not the shit they get in Peshawar. The ones that do get their degrees in Peshawar (and such), come here as "Freshers" to do the low level shit work for pennies. I've known dozens of them in IT. You can check it out.
The Musk Ox and the Indian Guy are lying, of course. Just as New England mill owners in the 19th century went for the cheapest labour, so too does "Tech" today. The problem is age old: if everybody does what you do, what happens next? If all labour is reduced to slave wages, as in the Red States, who'll buy the stuff that does get made? From the 50,000 foot perspective, slave labour states export to high wage states; the latter, of course, are the importers. All those cheap (Boeing hopes) 787s made in South Carolina go to rich states. That's been the case for millennia. soonToBePresident Huey Long 2024© isn't going to change that, even if he could.
In the past it sort of worked because white people were expanding into Indian (sorry, but that's what it was called then) territory, breeding like cockroaches, and in need of basics. Manufacture was there to help. These days, manufacture has gone off-shore for yet cheaper labour, and employment is shifting more and more to financial services which cater to the well-to-do. In other words, not the general population. The MAGAnauts are merely cannon fodder in the continuing Culture War.
The Blue Collar Middle Class, RIP, existed because the Damn Gummint supported their war with capital. Not so much now. Way too many MAGAnauts won't connect the dots. They rail against The Elites, yet MAGA politicians are nearly all (MTG excepted) of the financial elite. Name me a handful of billionaires who are Progressive, or even middle of the road Democrats. You can't.
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