This is a mask off moment and given that Elon isn't charismatic or particularly likeable I'm not sure how he fixes it. I'm amazed he was dumb enough to say this stuff out loud. But all the tech barons believe this. They need the visa hires because it fuels their fixation on hyper profits and over delivering for shareholder $$$. H1B hires are often paid less than equally qualified/experienced American engineers and they regularly work 90 hours a week without issue. They're machines, basically. Zero social skills, zero soft skills, don't care about holidays. Just work.
Elon also got caught telling bold ass lies here. On one hand he says (white) Americans shouldn't go to college. On the other hand he complains about the lack of qualifications. And if you're smart enough to do the work without a degree guess what? Hiring H1Bs legally requires you to hire Americans based off whatever the education level of the visa holder is. So that army of white boys who refuse to go to school for IT/engineering/etc get fukked by the numbers game.
I hope it's clear to everyone. All that dudebro shyt that the tech barons have embraced? They were deliberately playing white guys for fools. In reality it was never about getting good jobs to Americans. They want white people to have children, be broke consumers, and when the time is right guess who will be the factory workers, for shyt they can't get robots to do yet? It'll be an army of broke Americans. Elon is selling dreams about Mars but I will bet you anything that the next step will be some type of massive works program on earth. Building shyt on Antarctica or something. Hell, look at how they're trying to buy and corporatize New Zealand. Lots of empty land there for Elon to build factories on.