Elon Says Have More Babies
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🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The world’s population has never been bigger, and it’s still growing. but there’s a movement of “pronatalists” who see the slowing birth rate in wealthy, educated populations as a doomsday scenario in the making—and they’ve found their spokesman in one Elon Musk.
Guest: Sophie Alexander, reporter for Bloomberg
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| 0:00.0 | Sophie, do you know off the top of your head how many kids, Elon Musk House? |
| 0:10.0 | Yes, he has fathered at least 12 that we know of, but the number could be higher. |
| 0:18.3 | I guess to answer your question, he's had 12 kids. |
| 0:20.4 | Sophie Alexander knows this number. kids. least comes into play because Musk's children, unlike their father, are not public figures, but |
| 0:36.1 | also because there are a lot of them. |
| 0:39.0 | They're from relationships with different partners and in at least three cases with an employee. So Shevan Zealous is an employee of his at his company |
| 0:48.3 | NeuroLink and they have had at least three kids together again the at least number because |
| 0:56.1 | this third one that we're confirming in the article we wrote was new it wasn't |
| 1:02.0 | previously known and the baby had been born earlier this year |
| 1:06.2 | so Chivan had been pregnant for you know nine ten months or so and again no one had known about it but yes this is the third baby he's |
| 1:15.0 | had with Chavan. |
| 1:17.0 | The reason we're talking about this though is not just because Elon Musk has a lot of kids. |
| 1:25.0 | It's that he wants other people to do that too. |
| 1:28.2 | Sophie just co-wrote a story for Bloomberg Business Week titled Elon Musk wants you to have more babies. |
| 1:35.7 | If you take a close look at Musk, you start to notice that he brings his son X, who he had with |
| 1:41.0 | the musician Grimes, along to meetings and interviews. |
| 1:45.0 | He tweets about how a collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces. |
| 1:51.0 | He talks about this stuff at conferences. |
| 1:54.0 | Musk is espousing the views of pro-natalism. |
| 1:58.0 | Elon Musk, he's never come out and said, I am a pro-natalist, but but of course because he wants people to have more babies he is de facto a pro-natalist because |
| 2:07.6 | pro-natalists are essentially just people who think that more babies is good. They're pro more babies. |
| 2:14.3 | Musk clearly wants that. His fellow pro natalist travelers are a hodgepodge of Silicon |
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