Vivek Ramaswamy is SO wrong on H-1Bs

The idea that foreign workers are better than American workers because of some sort of superior culture in China or India is, to put it bluntly, dumb.

Vivek Ramaswamy went viral recently over his latest long-winded explosion of verbal diarrhea. This time, he was sharing his belief that American-born workers in tech are losing out to foreign-born and first-generation engineers because of “culture.”

“Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG,” he wrote.

Here’s what he said:

Call me crazy, but it’s insane that Vivek Ramaswamy — a glorified tech-bro snake-oil salesman who made a fortune in what many have described as a Big Pharma pump-and-dump scheme while building business links with China…before buying his way into conservative politics as a self-proclaimed anti-woke and anti-China activist who changes his mind every 30 seconds depending on the audience — is viewed as an authority on…anything.

But since he’s managed to attach himself to Elon Musk, the DOGE initiative and the Trump administration, it’s worth debunking this latest idiocy.

As I explained on X, there is only one reason tech companies favor foreign-born and first-generation engineers: they’re cheap.

The idea that “American culture venerates mediocrity over excellence” is as offensive as it is utterly wrong. American culture venerates excellence over all else, and its a culture many foreign-born workers (including me!) want to take advantage of.

The idea that these workers are better than American workers because of some sort of superior culture in China or India or elsewhere is, to put it bluntly, dumb.