Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy ignited a debate about immigration and American education after criticizing American families and praising foreign-born workers.
In much of the English-speaking world, but not America, the day after Christmas is called Boxing Day. For reasons that are entirely unclear, DOGE bros Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk decided to take the occasion to don boxing gloves and throw haymakers at native-born American workers.
What started off with Musk saying on his social media platform X, and not for the first time, that he needs more foreign-born geniuses to work for him quickly morphed into Ramasawamy dressing down American families for indulging their children with sleepovers and trips to the mall. Apparently, big tech needs foreign workers because we raise our kids the wrong way. Ramaswamy insisted on X that native-born families need 'more math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less ‘chillin.’ More extracurriculars, less ‘hanging out at the mall.’' The former presidential candidate says he is just telling us 'hard truths' by suggesting every family should emulate some South Asians, who he points to as a shining example. But guess what? The United States of America is a nation, not simply a farm system for big tech. And by the way, the very reason that China steals innovation from us, not the other way around, is that our backward, hayseed attitudes create free thinkers, not drones. At least when we aren’t playing the banjo on the porch. Every native-born American kid applying to college this year is going to compete against students from foreign lands, including communist China, who will be extended a red carpet to use the American educational system. And when those American kids graduate, they may find themselves passed over for entry-level jobs because of foreign competition. Musk says that American tech workers aren’t good enoug
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