Elon Musk and The DYSTOPIAN Billionaire Obsession with BREEDING

The earth’s population hit around 8 billion people last month, and is set to continue to increase until the 2080s where it is predicted to hit over 10 billion people. Many people have discussed how this will affect the world and the environment, and the consensus is in our global capitalist system, the expanding population will produce many challenges in terms of food, fuel and water availability as well as habitable land. Of course, if we didn’t live in a world that puts profits over everything then population increase could be tackled effectively.

While many people are worried about population increase, some of the ultra wealthy actually believe we are going towards a population collapse - chief among them Elon Musk. Despite not offering much evidence of why this is a global problem, Musk uses the example of Japan to outline why population decline will be a disaster. However, cherry picking certain EU countries, Japan and the US is not evidence that there will be population decline, nor that it will destroy the planet.

It seems Musk is more worried about less people accepting dire economic conditions that force them into working for terrible companies, like many of those that Musk owns. It seems that the billionaires want an increasing population forever as an infinite labour pool for their business interests.

Musk himself has had ten children, 9 still alive, and has had 4 in the last 3 years.

.00:00:00 - Elon Musk is a weirdo
00:04:10 - Why the Rich think there are too many people on earth
00:08:45 - Elon Musk's dad is a weirdo too
00:10:50 - Elon Musk's many kids
00:15:10 - Elon Musk's obsession with population collapse
00:21:00 - The Billionaires are not okay

[TheKavernacle]

Imagine how much better comedy would be if there were more Elon Musks in the world 😂

[faithpearlgenied-a]

Now imagine the names a woman would get called if she bragged about how she's got 10 kids, doesn't know who fathered some of them because she was just going with a different man every night etc and wasn't even looking after her kids herself. Just pumping them out and encouraging others to do the same. The double standards with this kind of thing is appalling.

[FeministCatLadySpinster]

Whenever a billionaire (or millionaire) says we're not overpopulated, all I hear is "I need more low wage workers".

[TimEssDub]

Elon Musk: "You should have more children"
Also Elon Musk: "You're pregnant? There's the door."

Elon Musk is one of the reasons that birthrates are down.

[rosiethered]

What's really gross is that Elon doesn't even like children. He's the worst kind of absent father who wants nothing to do with his kids once they're actually born. You can't just swoop in one day when your child turns 20 and say, "It's me, dad!" That's just not how being a father works.

[saininj]

People seriously defending Elon at this point are a lost cause. I hope they get their brains chips and leave for Mars with him soon.

[indigothecat]

By Lonnie's logic then, billionaires should all pay higher taxes to ensure that college, day-care, education, healthcare, school-lunches, and after-school programs are all 100% free for everyone. And maybe figuring out the housing situation, too and work on world-hunger problems. As difficult as it might be for his galaxy-brain to believe, people have more children when they are financially secure, healthy, and properly housed.

[bryna]

So he wants to add more people that he won't take care of, but he also doesn't want to help the ones that are starving right now...makes sense.

[RedRattt]

Having a breeding kink is fine, once you start trying to justify a kink when no-one is asking it starts getting weird.

[Rogue_Leader]

"I'm trying to get a baby momma soon" (0:35)

How creepy do you need to be in public, bro?

[davidpachecogarcia]

Can Elon Musk go do CEO things? This man apparently has all the time in the world to go do podcast talks while his “companies” are on fire.

[DavidRichardson]

If you believe you need to spread your seed, odds are that your seed should not be spread - and these odds are virtually guaranteed if you are a billionaire.

[RedGreen]

The billionaires need more meat for their meat grinder.

[APGTV]

I live in Tunisia and to expand on the idea that food is made for profit. I remember few years ago in Tunisia compagnies were dumping milk in the middle of nowhere because they didn't want people to get it for free and lose on profit.

[omowhanre]

Unpopular opinions:
1) After 2 high risk pregnancies- I think it’s straight up stupid and selfish to purposely have kids with someone who has nothing to lose by leaving you and said kids.
2) It’s your future kids’ right that you pick a good parent for them.

[TheLaLeeee]

Who wouldn't want to have Elon Musk's genes for their kids. Early hairloss is a very attractive trait for men.

[karoliinalehtinen]

Honestly elon musk saying "rich people don't have a lot of children" when talking about people needing to breed more is imo a dog whistle and points to him not wanting actually everyone breeding more, but certain people. He knows his audience is mostly white upper/middle class techbros and when he is encouraging people to breed more he is talking to them. The part that *certain* people shouldn't be having more children is left quiet, because he knows it's eugenist and racist and would be easily seen that way. So being against childcare isn't actually contradiction to his beliefs. I don't believe he is actually concerned about getting more labour, he knows like the rest of us that people in poor conditions have more children, and he's going to exploit them anyway. I do think he is an eugenist and believes in the bell curve bullshit, that rich people are rich because they are smart and that population IQ is lowering (statistically false) because "smart" (=rich) people are not having enough children. Of course there is the underlying white surpremacy, when you look how disproportionally rich white people are, the logical conclusion is the genetic superiority of white people.

[Geark]

In the Endless Space series (4-X strategy) are a number of different factions. One of them is "Horatio". Horatio is a former trillionaire who fucked off into space, where he found some alien technology that allowed him to realize his dream: Populate the whole galaxy with the perfect lifeform. As in, clones of himself. A whole, vast space empire where the entire population consists of nothing but clones of himself. Kinda reminded me of Elon, not sure why...

[wsxc]

Fun fact: The main job of workers in Tesla factories and at Spacex is to scientifically develop the dumbest possible opinions on every single social and technological issue in the world so that the Musky One can use it to make every inhabitant of this planet collectively roll their eyes. The static electricity this creates is then used to power the Tesla batteries.

[feonjun]

I used to work in IT and software engineering. I can say with confidence that the kind of CPU processing power needed to operate a safe self-driving cars and trucks is at least 100 years away. If quantum computing does become a *_"thing, "_* it would have to be a cloud base computing because there's noway in hell to fit it into a square inch chip. My point being that Elon Musk is a good salesmen. Elon's coming crash is going to be as bad as FTX.