I don’t believe Elon’s post was exclusively about H1B, please correct me if I’m mistaken.
As for my experience, it’s hard to find Americans to fill certain types of jobs. They are not as motivated to work. My hiring experience is more in low-skilled work, but I’ve witnessed at a company I was a part of before at just how hard it was to find qualified chemists.
Why not just offer people full citizenship with no strings attached to any corporate entity?
I personally support this.
We pay anywhere from $200~$300 per day. 8~10 hour days, 5 days a week. roughly $25~$30 an hour for people that have more than a few months of experience. from my research it’s a fairly high wage for unskilled work relative to other jobs
it’s just a few things
a) our work is mostly nomadic. it involves staying at hotels all across the US for months at a time and then packing up and moving when finished. we pay for room & board, as well as provide a truck & gas. but even so, most Americans do not want to live like this. juan and pablo don’t mind at all though.
b) it’s hard labor. pretty much digging holes all day. again, most Americans do not want to do this. they either perceive it as below their station or they don’t have the willingness to do hard labor in the sun for hours a day
i’ve been doing this nearly a decade now. it’s pretty well known in the industry. you need a laborer, you get a central american (mexican, guatemalan, nicaraguan, etc). you need a supervisor, you get an americanized / assimilated latin american (typically Mexican). you need someone for the office, you get an American