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  • Still, Musk, like other billionaires, does seem to be obsessed with his own longevity, as can be seen by his ever-expanding family line.

    Seriously, does anyone but a few historians know what Rockefeller or Carnegie look like? Most of the US don't even know who our former presidents were, much less what they looked like. In one or two generations, they'll be footnotes at best. That goes for you Bezos, Dorsey, Zuck, Bannon, Stone, etc. No one cares about you.

    • We remember Rockefeller and Carnegie because of the public works they funded. If Bezos and Musk and Zuckerberg want to be remembered, build some libraries.

      • Do we know what they look like though? Do we know much about 2 or 3 generations back about our own family? Some people know their names but that's about it.

    • You're definitely not wrong and there are many families that fit that description; perplexingly proliferating profusely into a plethora, but this seems more excessive. Musk seems to be wanting a literal battalion of affluent little entitled male brats.

      You are correct though. I'm willing to bet they tear themselves apart with what fortune is left after Elon crashes out eventually.

    • If they all got their proper iron necktie, French revolution style, the only time they would be discussed is when you read another report that the lasting damage they caused has been repaired and the systems they tried to eradicate have been restored.

  • “Without babies there’s no future, every problem becomes secondary to the problem of not having people on the planet,” said Varsavsky. “Elon believes that a country is not the geography, a country is the people.”

    Speaking to an audience at an investment conference in Saudi Arabia last year, Musk laid out the urgency of the matter. “I think for most countries, they should view the birthrate as the single biggest problem they need to solve. If you don’t make new humans, there’s no humanity, and all the policies in the world don’t matter,” Musk told the crowd over a live video.

    Possible translation: "I'm going to need many, many future slaves and test subjects for my Neuralink brain chip that will be able to read your minds and maybe even allow me to take control of your minds and bodies whenever I want. Also, I need to blast lots of controllable people to Mars. Many of them will probably die. Pilgriming is hard business, after all."

    Can't believe how out of touch this sick fuck is. "Have more kids!!" Ya, ok buddy. Maybe when you make housing available and affordable. Maybe when you make it easy to have a life at home and not completely beholden to tenuous corporate interests optimized to squeeze all of someone's life and soul out of them. Maybe when you start to actually give a fuck about the future health of this planet, so if someone decides to bring new life into existence, they're not debilitated by guilt at having forced someone to live in the hellish future you're fabricating.

    “Without babies there’s no future, every problem becomes secondary to the problem of not having people on the planet”

    Instead, how about "With the perception of there being a really shitty future, or possibly no future, people will conscientiously refuse to bring more people into existence because they don't want to be responsible for their childrens' horrible and untimely deaths."

    I, for one, would feel like a complete piece of shit if I were to reproduce today because, sorry kid, the shittiest, most hostile sociopathic people happen to be in charge now and I don't foresee that changing anytime soon...barring, of course, an extinction event you would have no chance of surviving.

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