Billionaire entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy stirred up the internet on Thursday with a lengthy X post breaking down how “American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence.”

Ramaswamy began his post as a response to assertions there are a limited number of native-born Americans in tech positions and a seemingly heavy percentage of foreign-born coders and engineers, thanks to the H-1B visa program.

“The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over ‘native’ Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture,” he wrote.

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