Yeah, not a good look when he belongs to the same minority he thinks needs to be imported. It reeks of condescending elitist paternalism. Going around talking about how he cares about the MAGA voters, unlike Dems, but then disparage them as lazy and stupid.

As Norwegian who has studied in the US and worked with Americans, I would say that while I may have my fair share of criticism against Americans, “lazy” is not one of them. Americans are generally very committed to work and hard working. I mean that is a central value of US society.

And I don’t want to do the same as Vivek and spout racist stuff but Indians I studied with were not harder working than Americans. I would say less. The honorable exception is Indian women. They were very hard working and talented in my experience.

I remember being somewhat provoked to hear that they were supposed to become stay-home-wife as soon as they get married. Based on the talents and dedication I saw I thought perhaps it would have been better if the husband stayed home 😂

Anyway that is another discussion. My takesway is still that Indian IT immigrants are not superhumans. But they they are used to worse conditions at home and thus will accept lower pay and conditions than Americans. It is a big upgrade for them anyway.

Of course Elon doesn’t want to admit this is all about cost cutting and getting more obedient employees than talent and work dedication.

I remember long time applying to jobs in Norway. Company with by far most immigrant workers (other Europeans, not Indians) had significantly lower wages than more Norwegian companies.

It was a company well known abroad and so got plenty of applicants abroad. Result was lower wages domestically. Not that I saw this as an overall problem. Norway doesn’t have that high tech worker import. Or rather they are often other Europeans so work pay and conditions will have higher expectations than for Indians or Chinese.