It's a tenet that economies with labor mobility do better than economies without labor mobility.<p>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.<p>Advice to favor H1-B visas over expedited green cards to the real best and brightest seems uneducated, untrustworthy and myopic at best.
> Advice to favor H1-B visas over expedited green cards to the real best and brightest seems uneducated, untrustworthy and myopic at best.<p>You missed an important attribute. Self-interested.<p>Tech leadership has a long history of whining about labour mobility.
> <i>seems uneducated, untrustworthy and myopic at best.</i><p>Musk is an oligarch. Oligarchs always look after their own self-interest ahead of any broader economic or national interest.<p>Oligarchs have more in common with each other than they have with anyone else.