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Why Billionaires Seem Obsessed With Birth Rates

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Let’s talk about that hot new topic screaming from the lips of Tech’s hottest billionaires: birth rates.


For some time, Elon Musk’s pinned tweet was about the declining birth rates in the United States. A man of conviction, Musk has sired at least ten children. Now Marc Andreesen of Andreessen Horowitz is in on the act. He recently went on Joe Rogan and had a wide ranging conversation that covered birth rates and eugenics.


So why are some of the richest people alive obsessed with the U.S. having more kids? On this episode of Cyber, Motherboard staff writer Edward Ongweso Jr. comes on to talk about longtermism and America’s history of being weird about who gets to have kids.


Stories discussed in this episode:


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


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0:00.0

Tadden, it's got the code it's going to launch.

0:10.2

It's a unit system.

0:12.6

I know this.

0:14.6

It's how all the files of the whole park.

0:16.8

It tells her everything.

0:18.6

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.3

Eagle One. The eagle one.

0:22.1

The package is being delivered.

0:26.1

Hello out there on the internet.

0:27.6

I am Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber.

0:29.8

Let's talk about the hot new topic,

0:31.6

screaming from the lips of tech's hottest billionaires' birth rates.

0:36.5

For some time, Elon Musk's pinned tweet was about

0:39.2

declining birth rates of the United States, man of conviction. Musk has sired at least nine

0:43.9

children. Now, Mark Andreessen of Andresen Horowitz is in on the act. He recently went on

0:49.2

Joe Rogan and had a wide-ranging conversation that covered birth rates and eugenics. So why are some of the richest people alive obsessed with the U.S. having more kids?

1:00.8

Really, it's a timely question, as I just had a vasectomy yesterday,

1:04.7

and we'll return to laying down once we finished recording here.

1:07.7

That's why we're not live on Twitch this week, incidentally.

1:10.4

Here to help me answer all of your questions about billionaires and the West's declining

1:14.4

birth rates is motherboard staff writer Edward and Guiseo Jr.

1:18.4

He just wrote about it on Motherboard.

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