Originally published at crisis magazine
Of all things, the recent debate about the H-1B visa program has illustrated a division in attitudes in what is vaguely known as the conservative movement.
The program is supposedly to allow visas to qualified technical workers for the good of the development of business and technology. The three billionaires associated with the so-called populist right, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and President Trump, have surprised that part of the conservative movement which seems prejudiced against immigration by favoring the program. All three are businessmen, and their perspective is based on practicality. They are aware of how the creeping incompetence evident in our society hampers business. Part of that incompetence involves what used to be called the work ethic but which Ramaswamy calls “culture.”
Many people who are not entrepreneurs agree that the quality of work seems to have suffered a decline in our country. Sometimes this is blamed on education. Other times it is related to generational attitudes (“millennials,” etc.). It also can be argued that it can be connected in some ways to the racial tensions that are so acute among us.
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