According to liberal economics, aren't green cards more productive than H1-Bs?
It's a tenet that economies with labor mobility do better than economies without labor mobility.
So, it feels distressingly incompetent of leaders like Elon Musk to push the idea that reduced labor mobility is better for our economy than free labor mobility.
Advice to favor H1-B visas over expedited green cards to the real best and brightest seems uneducated, untrustworthy and myopic at best.
Do you really except anything else from this confederacy of dumbasses?
> Advice to favor H1-B visas over expedited green cards to the real best and brightest seems uneducated, untrustworthy and myopic at best.
You missed an important attribute. Self-interested.
Tech leadership has a long history of whining about labour mobility.
> seems uneducated, untrustworthy and myopic at best.
Musk is an oligarch. Oligarchs always look after their own self-interest ahead of any broader economic or national interest.
Oligarchs have more in common with each other than they have with anyone else.