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I see a lot of pointing and laughing at the brouhaha between Musk and Ramaswamy, and the MAGA crowd who's pissed off at them for the whole H1B thing, and claiming America doesn't have enough engineers.

But here's the thing. Musk had a whole helluva lot of engineers when he bought Twitter. He decimated his own workforce.

Every other tech CEO looked at that, went "HEY THAT LOOKS PROFITABLE," and chucked a bunch of their own engineers out the door, too.

The tech job market is STILL reeling from this.

So I call bullshit on the whole "America doesn't have enough engineers" claim. What they really mean is, there's a shortage of engineers they can get away with paying shit wages.

Signed, QA Engineer still out of work after a year and a half