So, it feels distressingly incompetent of leaders like Elon Musk to push the idea that reduced labor mobility is better for our economy than free labor mobility.
Advice to favor H1-B visas over expedited green cards to the real best and brightest seems uneducated, untrustworthy and myopic at best.
Musk is an oligarch. Oligarchs always look after their own self-interest ahead of any broader economic or national interest.
Oligarchs have more in common with each other than they have with anyone else.
You missed an important attribute. Self-interested.
Tech leadership has a long history of whining about labour mobility.