• MacAnus@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      6 days ago

      I just finished re watching it a minute ago. Then I get on Lemmy and see this!
      Thanks for confirming it, what a coincidence ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      51·
      6 days ago

      This is wrong for three reasons:

      1. He’s a citizen
      2. It’s not $100k/year, it’s $100k per application, which are good for 6 years
      3. Paying $100k per new employee adds up, and it would probably be cheaper to relocate to another country
      • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        6 days ago

        For 2, there was “confusion” as during the announcement they did literally say it was yearly, then came back and said it wasn’t.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          6 days ago

          That was clarified a week ago. I work with several people on that visa, and I’m well aware of the panic. We’d be pretty screwed if they all had to pay $100k/year, because they’re in pretty important positions.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksM
    391·
    7 days ago

    You need an archive link, especially to an Elon Musk tweet. You and anyone else who wants to provide one, have about 30 minutes, or I’ll have to remove it.

  • twice_hatch@midwest.socialEnglish
    36·
    7 days ago

    Imagine having more money than an entire city and still being a dweeb who has to fall in line behind an old man

    • D_C@sh.itjust.works
      10·
      6 days ago

      An old man…that is so evil and inept that he bankrupted many casinos and raped children.

      You know, I’m ok with people riding on other people’s coattails, it’s a way of life that’s been done for centuries and centuries. However if a person chooses to stand behind a kiddie fiddling, casino bankrupting, woman assaulting, failed reality TV starring, felony having, blatant racist and convicted rapist then that person is almost as bad.

      And in some ways it makes them a worse person. “Ok, I know this person did all this absolutely terrible shit…yet this is the guy I follow” is pretty much admitting you’d do the same shit. Or that you have done it, but you were so good at hiding it all that you won’t get caught out. Or you are so useless that you won’t get away with it so you won’t try it, but you really want to.
      The real tragedy is why these obvious drains on society are still alive.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
    40·
    7 days ago

    Elon just went to UK telling white people there that they need to overthrow parliament now or the immigrants will kill them all.

  • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
    22·
    6 days ago

    So if we had gotten rid of this a long time ago we wouldn’t have to hear about that asshole all the time? Count me in

  • ristoril_zip@lemmy.zipEnglish
    12·
    6 days ago

    I thought he was an illegal immigrant for a long time before he went through the process to naturalized. Didn’t his brother say that?

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
    13·
    6 days ago

    I was going to say they need to get out of there before ICE catch them until I saw the poster name, and now I hope that they do.

  • plz1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    182·
    7 days ago

    He could afford to fill all his companies with H1B’s, and pay the fees personally, and not even notice the cost. Also, wasn’t he in the country by over-staying a student visa?

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      6 days ago

      Really? Tesla has ~125k employees. If all of them were fresh H1Bs, that’s $10B. Tesla’s net income is ~$7B, so in year one, that would create a deficit. If spread over the 6 years of an H1B, that would represent a nearly $2B, and that’s assuming everyone stuck around for the full 6 years.

      Yes, he could afford it, but he’d certainly notice.