Lucas's Kunce Substack -The DOGE Bros' Vision, Part II
The drive for “efficiency” has long been simmering as one of the great political issues of our time. It’s caused a wave of mergers and acquisitions, leading to unprecedented levels of corporate consolidation, profit, and inequality. It’s the driving force behind two hot-button issues, immigration and out-sourcing, that the right has highlighted in a political toolkit that has successfully shifted a significant number of working class voters in our country.
At the most basic level, increased “efficiency” in corporate America means decreasing overhead costs in order to transfer a higher share of revenue to shareholders. Immigrant labor and overseas labor are both “efficiency” tools for corporate America because cheaper labor (whether immigrant or overseas) allows for higher wealth distribution to shareholders.
The fight over immigration efficiencies is exploding in the news right now, as a civil war seems to be breaking out on the right between the DOGE Bros, Musk and Ramaswamy, who value the “efficiency” of importing foreign labor, and the right’s anti-immigration wing, who have captured a lot of political capital with the issue.
That civil war is likely to expand into the outsourcing front, too, as Musk and friends, who enjoy cheap overseas labor, continue to protect their positions on the outsourcing front. Something we recently saw Musk actively do when he killed a bipartisan anti-outsourcing provision in a budget bill in order to protect his investments and activities in China.
.https://lucaskunce.substack.com/p/the-doge-bros-vision-part-ii