Elon Musk uses Nikola Jokic and Victor Wembanyama analogy to stress the importance of bringing top engineering talents via legal immigration. [photo: Imagn]
Elon Musk said in November that “legal immigration to America is ridiculously slow and difficult, even for super talented people." Listed by Forbes as worth $449.5 billion, Musk asserted that this is a problem that needed to be “fixed.” The X, formerly Twitter, CEO sees only advantages for the USA if the best talents work for the country.
On Thursday, Musk doubled down on his contention, using an NBA analogy to illustrate his point:
“I am referring to bringing in via legal immigration the top ~0.1% of engineering talent as being essential for America to keep winning.
“This is like bringing in the Jokic’s or Wemby’s of the world to help your whole team (which is mostly Americans!) win the NBA. Thinking of America as a pro sports team that has been winning for a long time and wants to keep winning is the right mental construct.”
