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Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson discussed the urge to have sex, with Musk claiming 'birth control and abortions' could cause civilization to collapseBillionaire Elon Musk aired his controversial ideas on population decline and reproduction in the second of a series of meandering interviews with Fox News' Tucker Carlson that aired Tuesday.
During the discussion, Musk claimed that the human urge to procreate had been "subverted," leading to population decline.
Link to tweet
Carlson then asked the Tesla and SpaceX billionaire to expand on the idea.
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"I'm sort of worried that hey, civilization, if we don't make enough people to at least sustain our numbers, perhaps increase a little bit, then civilization's going to crumble," Musk added.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/elon-musk-and-tucker-carlson-discussed-the-urge-to-have-sex-with-musk-claiming-birth-control-and-abortions-could-cause-civilization-to-collapse/ar-AA1a2Zri
Miguelito Loveless
(5,757 posts)Hes on Fox.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(14,260 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Carlitos Brigante
(26,848 posts)inventor. When in reality he hasn't invented anything.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(14,260 posts)Carlitos Brigante
(26,848 posts)Justin Hammer.....


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Demsrule86
(71,542 posts)profits from his South African apartheid Emerald mines. He is a rich asshole and a complete fraud.
roamer65
(37,957 posts)CLIMATE CHANGE.
8 BILLION IS TOO MANY.
Lovie777
(22,992 posts)how about no killing once they are born and live a good life .
rogue emissary
(3,352 posts)C_U_L8R
(49,387 posts)Or is that just for populations that don't look like them?
haele
(15,404 posts)We actually don't need as many people to "sustain Civilization" as we did in 1980, because of a little thing called technology. Now, we need to improve technology to assist people as they age, but for now, immigration can easily make up for the difference, as the emerging countries still have more than sustainable birthrates and would happily provide people to be trained and take their families to countries that need people to do the caretaking and other critical jobs.
All this being said, we do have a bad problem across the world with worker exploitation. Until we fix that, the rights and dignity of people who want to immigrate to get better or more diverse jobs is going be a shameful reflection of our society.
Haele
stopdiggin
(15,463 posts)a 'smart cookie' in some quarters. Damn!
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RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Shermann
(9,062 posts)That's where AI comes in! AI and robots will work all those stupid jobs, while us aging humans can focus on enjoying our retirement.
claudette
(5,455 posts)stupid moron know how many people inhabit this planet? And how this affects how long our PLANET will survive? My gawd. Money does not make one smart
calguy
(6,154 posts)It's the survival of the human race one or two hundred years from now that's in serious jeopardy.
claudette
(5,455 posts)of the problem of climate change and what it might do to the planet itself, too, with all thse people abusing it.
Yavin4
(37,182 posts)That's the subtext behind all of this. The number of White births is in steep decline around the world.
DBoon
(24,989 posts)Is there some magic number of people required to create "civilization"?
And what the heck does Musk think makes a "civilization"?
claudette
(5,455 posts)In time, I think the garbage all these billions of us accumulate on this planet will destroy it and us.
Carlitos Brigante
(26,848 posts)ornotna
(11,483 posts)
usonian
(25,334 posts)Have no problem with disaster, pestilence, low birth rate, low life expectancy, and outright genocide when they happen to people "WHO DON'T MATTER" because they aren't part of "civilization".
To hell with racism. That's where it comes from, and where it belongs, NOT HERE.
RussBLib
(10,636 posts)you so-called "genius"
patphil
(9,070 posts)There are nearly 8 billion people on the planet, and over 334 million in the United States.
I think there are more than enough people out there.
The guy's a fuckin' idiot!
https://www.census.gov/popclock/
jcgoldie
(12,046 posts)...he just wants constant exponential population growth to supply cheap labor to support billionaires like him.
IcyPeas
(25,475 posts)The Tesla mogul and one of his top Neuralink executives, Shivon Zilis, welcomed twins in November 2021, just one month before the arrival of his second child with on-again, off-again partner Grimes via surrogate.
The three newborns join Musks six other living children: Griffin, Vivian, Kai, Saxon, Damian and X.
Meet the billionaire businessmans kids and their mothers below.
https://pagesix.com/article/elon-musk-children/
LiberalFighter
(53,544 posts)Iris
(16,877 posts)sakabatou
(46,151 posts)maxrandb
(17,428 posts)Ya' know, because you need to "monitor" what is said, or "it's important to know what the other side is doing", or "well, he's only preaching to people that already are as disgustingly amoral as he is", or "it's important for my business", or whatever such shit you tell yourself to justify puting money in this fascist fucksticks pocket
Demsrule86
(71,542 posts)Jspur
(798 posts)why they want the population to increase exponentially so they can be off the hook from funding social programs such as Social Security, Medicare, etc. We don't need a large population to fund these programs. if we increased taxes on the rich we could fund them. That's the easiest way to fix this problem but that's not ideal for the rich.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Johonny
(26,186 posts)to have multiple kids, yet alone give workers the time off to actually raise them, or you know, any kind of job stability, complains the working class isn't having enough kids. Here's a hint at the problem. It's fucking you. Greedy assholes make it impossible for workers to afford homes and kids. That's basically it.
Scottie Mom
(5,838 posts)Or just blame it on RWNJ like Musk.