Why Are Elon Musk and Marc Andreesen Obsessed with Birth Rates?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ge4v/why-are-elon-musk-and-marc-andreesen-obsessed-with-birth-rates

by RafelMri • 4 years ago

5 8 4 years ago

  “Right now there's a movement afoot among the elites in our country that 
  basically says anybody having kids is a bad idea, including having elites 
  have kids is a bad idea because of climate,” Andreesen told Rogan

This isn't the first time I've heard Andreesen contrast his own opinion to that of the 'elites'. It grates to listen to someone employ class warfare when that person is worth somewhere from one to two billion dollars.

sn0w_crash2• 4 years ago

I’m not sure why a persons wealth should cause me to automatically rule out their morals, message or wisdom. Regardless of wether or not one agrees with the message.

The inverse of that would be saying “this person is penniless, it grates me to listen to their opinion on other poor people.”

jlee4219• 4 years ago

You're arguing against something different than what you replied to – it's not necessarily that their wealth rules out their morals, message, or wisdom, it's that their wealth rules out their ability to frame themselves as not part of the "elite."

LewisVerstappen• 4 years ago

He's talking about "Cultural Elites". Cultural elites has less to do with wealth and is instead about influence over culture.

Authors, journalists, large twitter influencers, etc. are examples of cultural elites who are not wealthy.

jelliclesfarm2• 4 years ago

If they do one or all of the following, they wouldn’t be so worried or obsessed: 1. Stop educating women. 2. Rip reproductive rights off women 3. Bring back child marriage 4. Polygamy.

The options are endless.

We won’t go extinct. Population grows exponentially. Embracing religion can help restore population growth.

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2017/04/05/the-changing...

jelliclesfarm2• 4 years ago

2.26: is that even legal? For employers to not hire on the basis of being ‘technology critics’ or ‘write against Elon online’?

This interview is one of the scariest things I have heard in a long while now.

At one point, MA says that we have never run out of natural resources. We don’t have water in California. What is he talking about? We can’t grow our food without hiring undocumented immigrants as labourers at poverty wages. Where is the technology? It’s very confusing.

Why Are Elon Musk and Marc Andreesen Obsessed with Birth Rates?

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