Vivek Ramaswamy dragged after wild rant on how American workers suck
Vivek Ramaswamy dragged after wild rant on how American workers suck
MAGA is about to eat Vivek Ramaswamy alive.
Summary
Vivek Ramaswamy criticized American culture for prioritizing “normalcy” over excellence, which leads tech companies hiring foreign-born workers over Americans.
In a post on X, he argued that U.S. culture celebrates mediocrity and undervalues nerdiness, hard work, and academic achievement.
His comments sparked backlash across the political spectrum, with critics labeling him out of touch with American culture.
The controversy may jeopardize his standing in the Trump administration.
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It's kind of true. I don't think it's necessarily that there is a culture of mediocrity but that other foreigners have a really high bar to get citizenship here in the states so they have to be exceptional. Leading to a massive amounts of underpaid intelligent H1B people.
Also, America can't get shit done with technological improvements. Our infrastructure is shit, no high speed rail systems and we're dependent on oil. We try to change but change takes way too long. Take a look at China and Japan, these countries are living in the future and we're stuck in the past.
Edit: fixed visa type name
Japan is only living in the future in very select and narrow areas. Source: a decade in Japan sending faxes, having to use a physical stamp on hand-written paperwork, and working with/at japanese companies whose IT practices are still sitting around 2008.
Ah yes, have they gotten rid of their tape drives yet? I'm just nitpicking these technological advancements and highlighting how fast these countries can move whereas our California High Speed Rail is taking fuck long.
This year the government (at least national; not sure on more regional and local) updated their systems to allow submitting data on something other than literal 3.5" floppy disks so there's that!
I'm not sure exactly how rail will continue to evolve here. Some argue the maglev stuff is a waste of money. We also have our own infrastructure issues going on here, particularly in the more rural areas.