Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld) Newsgroups: misc.immigration.usa Subject: MEDIA: Trump's MAGA base clashes with Musk 'broligarchs' over tech's dependence on employer-tied visas that create Date: 2 Feb 2025 13:37:09 GMT Organization: Groenveld.US Lines: 34 Message-ID: X-Trace: individual.net eelfccXpreiHuSJbVfHPJwdQeJR2hDe2se5Smyd6OdK3BLnFh3 Cancel-Lock: sha1:mflvSRP4tVQv5/4b054++30ZYV0= sha256:TKdTit6nBAMRkWEzOxw8bCqL4ZmEtWcpgcR03knQTjs= X-uri: Bytes: 2518 Fortune's Christiaan Hetzner on whether Donald Trump will attempt to enlist VP JD Vance to serve as Deputy Chief Salescritter for Trump's plan to commission Big .EDU presidents and deans as Staple a Green Card privateers poaching the 8.1B globe's top two quintiles for the Cheap Labor Lobby and will Peter Thiel advise Vance to decline: | In reality, however, there are already 20,000 additional H-1B visas | issued yearly to elite graduates, for example those with master's | degrees or doctorates like Ilya Sutskever, the famed computer | scientist Musk recruited to lead OpenAI's research. | | Musk's stance is emblematic of what's been called the "broligarchy", | an elite group of tech-sector entrepreneurs that chafed at Biden | administration's multi-pronged regulatory crackdown led by Lina Khan | and Gary Gensler, the respective heads of the FTC and SEC federal | agencies. | | Leading voices from Silicon Valley libertarians, including Marc | Andreessen and David Sacks, united to endorse Trump hoping to ride | the anti-establishment wave and profit from the elimination of red | tape by Musk and fellow government efficiency czar Vivek Ramaswamy. Will Trump order Kristi Noem to order DHS.GOV to request that the Big Tech Bros de-platform the legacy American proles co-opting their websites to spew hate for the Cheap Labor Lobby and their efforts to dipsossess them? John groenveld@acm.org -- "Refugees are under immense pressure to get the photo shoot done during optimal lighting. Film crew walking into the shot is a major setback... could cost a #journalist her big break! https://t.co/4U5Nd2Gngg" - Andy Swan