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.
Never met a craftsman in my life who didn’t want to produce excellence.
The reason they don’t is because management at best doesn’t value it, and more often punishes it. This is you and your buddies fault Vivek Ramaswamy, you absolute shit for brains knob.
Which is absolutely dumb because you gain a solid reputation for craftsmanship when you consistently make great pieces of work. This drives business up.
I mean yeah I guess management could skimp and cut costs, but if that results in an inferior product, your customers will definitely notice it, and perhaps take their business elsewhere.
I hate short-sighted business decisions, but they’re everywhere in modern life.
I was about to say, you know what happened at every workplace I’ve ever been at when I did excellent work? I got more work piled onto me. I didn’t get a raise, I didn’t get a promotion or any recognition other than that excellent work being recognized as my new baseline.
Eventually, you just decide to stop caring too much and settle for mediocrity because it’s a hell of a lot easier than busting your ass for forty hours a week, so why bother doing that if you aren’t getting anything for actually doing good work?
Isn’t this the same guy who said “weekends were a mistake”?
People like this have fully infiltrated the US tech sector, and have been kicking and screaming about how the workers there aren’t killing themselves for their jobs anymore. They have completely embraced classism and believe they are at the top of some imaginary tower or food chain that allows them to make idiotic statements like this. Anti-egalitarian at the core.
They’ve already stripped all the benefits of working in tech away from the workers, and are now complaining that the horse won’t pull the cart anymore now that the carrot is gone. Pieces of shit.
Isn’t this the same guy who “weekends were a mistake”?
No, that is Narayana Murthy, the billionaire founder of Infosys - a company that makes its money through indentured servitude by exploiting H1B visas.
Let me spare you all some false hope: he wasn’t literally dragged.
Lol first musk, now this guy. These techbro wranglers are about to discover what getting into bed with fascist nationalists really means.
US businesses don’t hire foreign workers because they perform better than domestic workers. They do it because they pay less for slave labor. US slaves primarily work in domestic food production, initially as a way to reduce the cost of food, but that turned into corporate profit pretty quickly.
Now we’ve created a massive margin standard on foreign imports as well as domestic food production. The inevitable consequence is that correction would either result in a temporary but substantial domestic business profit loss, or employing more unpaid or underpaid domestic workers.
Take a guess which track the Republicans plan on taking while they begin to fill the detention centers.
