They're screaming the quiet part out loud, and I for one am glad the idiot MAGAs are still awake enough to realize it.
I've been saying for a while now that it's super clear that the people who run the world (and especially the USA) don't want to bring up the worldwide standard of living to match the US middle class. No, they want the opposite, they want to drag the US middle class down to the standard of living of the rest of the world. They literally think we demand too much and they've been coddled by being able to exploit the living shit out of workers from countries with even worse work-life-balance than we have. Offshoring has been going on since I was a kid, they've literally been doing it so long they're not interested in keeping US workers happy, they're done with us. Why invest in US workers when you can invest in (Insert Country) workers for less than a tenth of the cost and basically have slaves that can't say no?
The wealthy like Musk don't care about borders or nationality, he can hop on a plane and enter another country without ever flashing a passport because he owns private airstrips in many countries where he can touchdown on his own property. They will happily strip-mine the USA and then move to the next economy to strip-mine, like China. The wealthy will just move to wherever is most convenient and exploit workers wherever is most convenient, with whatever excuse makes the most sense at the time.
However, Musk is unintentionally correct about one thing: We worship mediocrity in this country. Musk and Trump are perfect examples. As with everything conservative, it's projection all the way down.