MICROSOFT & THE LORDS OF AMERICAN TECHNOFEUDALISM

EDITOR'S NOTES

J.D. Vance called it what it is: “Bullsh*t.” And for once, a sitting Vice President didn’t mince words when addressing the treachery bleeding out of Redmond, Washington. Microsoft, a $3 trillion empire built on monopolistic scaffolding and broken NDAs, just laid off nearly 16,000 workers—many of them Americans. And in the same breath, it went begging to the Department of Homeland Security for thousands of H-1B visas to import cheaper foreign labor.

This isn’t capitalism. It’s technofeudalism—the new aristocracy where oligarchs in Patagonia vests rule over a digitally indentured class, while the middle-class American coder is thrown to the curb like yesterday’s firmware update.

Derek Wolfe Jul 25, 25

THE SCAM CALLED H-1B

Let’s break this down. The H-1B visa program was sold to the American public as a tool to fill “critical labor shortages” in STEM fields. But dig into the Department of Labor filings and you’ll see it’s not about merit—it’s about margin. The overwhelming majority of H-1Bs go to offshore outsourcing firms and corporate giants like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. And the wages? Almost always below market rate.

In Microsoft’s case:

9,000 layoffs in July.
Over 6,000 new H-1B applications filed since October.
9,491 total filed last fiscal year. Every single one approved.

That’s not a shortage. That’s a shell game.

And here’s the twist of the dagger: These workers aren’t coming in to “compete” with Americans. They’re bound by visa dependency. If they lose their job, they have 60 days to leave the country. That’s not freedom. That’s modern serfdom—the perfect worker class for tech barons who want loyalty without leverage.

ELITES MOCK AMERICA’S CULTURE, THEN OUTSOURCE HER FUTURE

This isn’t just about labor costs. It’s about ideology. The Tech Industry’s power brokers—people like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy—aren’t hiding it. They’ve openly mocked American culture, ridiculing everything from high school prom queens to ‘Boy Meets World.’ Why? Because to them, your values are quaint and your labor is expendable.

Ramaswamy called the U.S. a culture of “Cory Matthews over Urkel,” implying Americans are too dumb, too distracted, too soft for the STEM elite’s brave new world. Musk echoed the sentiment, sneering that America lacks “super talented engineers.”

But here's the kicker: These same men built empires off the backs of American consumers and American workers.Their disdain isn’t intellectual—it’s financial. They’re reshaping the country not to save it, but to hollow it out and fill the shell with low-cost, compliant labor.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF CORPORATE COLONIZATION

This isn’t the first time plutocrats sold the American worker downriver. In the 1990s, it was NAFTA, gutting manufacturing towns across the Rust Belt. In the 2000s, it was China’s entry into the WTO, offshoring entire industries in one fiscal quarter. And now, it’s the tech visa racket, slowly erasing the American tech middle class.

Same con. New tools.

This is not “free trade.” It’s not “innovation.” It’s labor arbitrage on a digital plantation—where productivity gains don’t go to workers, they go straight into the stock buyback pipeline.

THE MODERN PLANTATION: YOU CODE, THEY COLLECT

Think of Microsoft not as a company, but as a 21st-century manor house. At the top: Satya Nadella and his executive class, raking in millions while boasting about “diversity.” Below them, a sprawling layer of imported H-1B coders—many talented, but most trapped in a bureaucratic cage. At the gates: 16,000 freshly fired Americans wondering where the “shortage” actually is.

This isn't accidental. It’s structural. And it's happening across the Tech Industry.

Google offshored over 12,000 jobs while expanding its visa filings.
Amazon laid off 27,000 employees in the last two years, while continuing to import H-1Bs by the thousands.
Meta fired 11,000 last year—then filed thousands of new visa applications.

And then they gaslight us with press releases about “talent gaps.”

TECHNOFEUDALISM: THE REAL FUTURE THEY’RE BUILDING

The Tech Industry doesn’t just want to replace American labor. It wants to own the entire stack of human potential.Education? Privatized. Currency? Tokenized. Jobs? Visa-dependent. News? Algorithmically curated. Speech? Shadowbanned.

Under technofeudalism, there’s no upward mobility—just upward data flows.

The H-1B program is the legal backbone of this transformation, a Trojan horse carrying not just workers, but the ideology of corporate sovereignty. One where borders don’t exist, only profit margins do.

THE COUNTERARGUMENT: "BUT WE NEED THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST..."

You’ll hear the counterarguments from the usual suspects in Davos and on CNBC:

“American schools aren’t producing enough STEM grads.”
Wrong. The U.S. produces far more STEM graduates than there are job openings. The problem isn’t quantity—it’s that corporations don’t want to pay them.
“Immigrants built this country.”
True. But what built America was immigration by choice, not indentured servitude through dependency. H-1B workers don’t build generational wealth—they lease it to their handlers.
“Global competitiveness demands flexibility.”
Translation: “We want to fire you and replace you with someone cheaper who can’t talk back.”

WHERE THIS GOES: COLLAPSE OR CONTROL

If this continues, we don’t just lose jobs—we lose sovereignty. We lose the capacity to build anything for ourselves. We become consumers of culture built elsewhere, code written elsewhere, infrastructure dependent on forces we don’t vote for.

J.D. Vance is right to call it out. But calling it “bullsh*t” is just the first shot. What’s needed is an all-out assault on the system itself:

Ban corporate visa usage within 12 months of domestic layoffs.
Audit the entire H-1B pipeline for wage suppression.
Rebuild a domestic tech workforce through trade schools, not DEI grants.
Dismantle the tech feudal empires before they finish walling off the future.

This isn’t about immigration. It’s about empire. And it’s time we fight like we understand the difference.

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