Responsa to Sam Hyde on Elon Musk
An avalanche crashed upon the heads of ardent white Trump supporters: the knife of the oncoming Trump administration terminally severed the spinal-cord of the aspiring, educated white man.
With H1B’s formally endorsed as economic policy of Trump 2.0, one must ask: what is the plan for the soon-to-be impoverished aspiring, white-collar white men? Those OK with blue-collar work clearly still have a role in the “near-shoring” economy, but outside of them, scant-pickings, await.
Is this reckless? Is this crazy? Has this been tried, before?
The answers to the above questions: No, no, and yes.
History Lesson: American Indians and the 1830 Indian Removal Act
Unfortunately for the aspiring upwardly-mobile American white man, what comes rhymes with history: the gradual erosion and finally displacement of American Indians from American common life.
American Indians proved fundamentally incompatible with the European American dialectic, which entailed utilitarian objectives of growing population, wealth, and power:
In his message on December 6, 1830, President Jackson informed Congress on the progress of the removal, stating, "It gives me pleasure to announce to Congress that the benevolent policy of the Government, steadily pursued for nearly thirty years, in relation to the removal of the Indians beyond the white settlements is approaching to a happy consummation."
Jackson declared that removal would "incalculably strengthen the southwestern frontier." Clearing Alabama and Mississippi of their Indian populations, he said, would "enable those states to advance rapidly in population, wealth, and power."
(https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/jacksons-message-to-congress-on-indian-removal)
Andrew Jackson & Elon Musk: American Power
Both Andrew Jackson and Elon Musk make utilitarian arguments for displacement of native people from segments of economic life: in the former case, it was to open-up land for natural resources (in particular, agriculture) and higher-density living and population growth, while in Trump’s (and Musk’s) case, it is to ensure steady interest rates in the face of otherwise catastrophic wage-shocks from the “mass-onshoring” of production from China.
Of course, simply not hiring someone isn’t as brutal as forcing him off his land, but to systematically exclude an entire race of men from upwardly-mobile white collar work does defer the “dirty work” to the Invisible Hand, rather than sheriffs and militias.
Trump White Collar Policy: White Collar Wage Suppression, Automation, and FX
To be clear, Musk is not wrong: without H1B’s, it would be impossible to onshore industry from China, at any scale, without a catastrophic and inflationary wage-shock.
The distinction between blue collar workers and white collar workers proves crucial: the former benefit from productivity increases resulting from automation, while the latter, who help “create” automation, are capitalized into the cost of producing these productivity increases: the “happy medium” or “Trump labor policy” is to REWARD users of on-shored automation at the expense of the developers of this on-shored automation.
Just as the American Indians were off-sides in the natural-resource economy of the pre-civil war United States, the educated Native White American population is off-sides when reconciling on-shoring of production from China and building a trade surplus. Notably, though, IN TOTAL CONTRAST, the blue collar white American worker is in for a surprisingly good time, ahead. As noted during the first Trump administration:
President Trump’s economic agenda is tailor-made to rebuild our great American middle class, transferring power from affluent white-collar professionals and activists to workers, small businesses, manufacturers, and others once left behind by globalization’s failures.
It’s about more than cutting taxes and growing our economy—although both are important. It’s about eliminating unnecessary degree requirements that help the privileged but hurt skilled workers. It’s about ending overregulation that creates jobs for lawyers and consultants but kills jobs for manufacturers and energy producers. It’s about fixing trade deals that boosted multinational corporations but shipped our jobs to China and Mexico.
(https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/articles/blue-collar-presidency/)
The “white collar white man ban” Is Neither Unique nor Novel
Musk spoke truth to his X users, and it was to the point: there is no magic when it comes to creating jobs. There must be a surplus, somewhere, for it to make sense. It’s certainly not fair to effectively “ban” white men from white-collar corporate America, but it’s hardly unique: throughout history, one can easily read of kingdoms (Catholic France banning Huguenots & Jews from the nobility, military, trades, agriculture, etc.) or even modern governments (e.g. Malaysia w.r.t. ethnic Chinese, India w.r.t. Brahmins, etc.) banning races or religious groups from the “fattest” labor markets.
What Musk and Trump can not publicly say is this: ending the H1B program would require revolutionary changes to the American political and economic establishment. To have a sufficient, ready-supply of white-collar labor, native-born and raised, means undoing the 60 years of deconstruction of the American Republic and repudiating the WEF/globalist agenda in 4 years.
Taking such a path would require catastrophic losses in share capitalization of various tech companies, to the extent that it would induce a fiscal and monetary crisis within the US, precisely as she seeks to pivot away from Chinese imports. It would also result in a political crisis, with implications for treason of the entire ruling strata of the American establishment and the dissolution of the largest non-profits in the United States. The shocks would resonate to the point of collapsing the entire country.
Such a disruption, at this delicate point in history, proves precarious and a tough-sell. America is, effectively, stuck, and the “path of least harm” is to sacrifice white collar white men. Considering the associated “boom” for far more numerous white blue collar men, it is hard to declare this, in aggregate, as either racist or inherently unjust.