https://www.thestreet.com/technology/elon-musk-says-the-world-has-a-bigger-problem-than-global-warming
As if western countries are focusing on solving global warming
Great. Now we have to Romanov the entire Musk family.
Thanks Elon.
OH GEE I WONDER IF GLOBAL WARMING HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH PEOPLE HAVING LESS KIDS. YOU FOOL. YOU UTTER BUFFOON.
Hmm, who should we listen too when it comes to Earths biological health, biologists and environmental scientists, sociologists, or some fuck whos only talent is buying shit and lying?
I never want Republicans to lecture me on "hard work" again. They will screech "earn it, rube!" if I argue in favor of universal healthcare or that housing should not be a luxury. But they will legitimately claim that they should bring NOTHING to the table in their relationship and that they should simply be GIVEN a wife for them to mooch off of.
They claim they are acting in men's best interests, but their ideas are killing men in more conservative countries like Italy or Saudi Arabia. Men are stigmatized from taking care of themselves because a woman should be doing that for him. Until then, just live with mummy who will do that. If you try to do so, you get labelled as effeminate and discouraged. That's how you end up with widowers who cannot feed themselves or even an hero just because they lack basic self-support skills. Furthermore, men in these countries are FUCKED if they grow up in an abusive household. But hey, at least the government will tell you "I love you", every now and then.
Being a fascist is the male equivalent of being a crazy cat lady.
Elon Musk dog-whistling 14 words
There is still massive cheap surplus labor in the Global South which Musk can exploit but :us-foreign-policy:
You can take the boy out of apartheid South Africa but you can't take apartheid South Africa out of the boy.
Organisms reproduce themselves, it does what it says on the tin, if a organism isn't reproducing itself then you have an environmental problem. Maybe if you stop climate change, remove the absolutely massive amount of industrial pollutants from the environment, and actually give people the resources and freedom they need to live and flourish people will start having children again. These people act like humans, and especially those carrying children, haven't always exercised intelligent decision making vis a vis their own reproductive capacity with regard to their material conditions.
I mean, liberalism is literally just assuming those with material wealth are smarter, better people, and the market god fairly selected them, so yeah, they really do think the poors are just too dumb and are making bad decisions.
These people act like humans, and especially those carrying children, haven’t always exercised intelligent decision making vis a vis their own reproductive capacity with regard to their material conditions.
Guys like Elon can't conceive of women as human beings.
Yeah any given organism but you can apply general rules to populations.
Yes Elon, the bigger problem is you, you fucking pissbaby.
:gulag:
Is this what the “Longtermists” have turned to now that their prediction of rogue AI has been discredited?
It only someone wrote about how the capitalist system is reliant on having more workers than there are jobs; reserve of labor perhaps; to press down wage and keep profit up. :marx-hi:
“In 2021, the tech tycoon suspended purchase of Tesla cars with bitcoins, after activists told him that it requires a lot of electricity to validate transactions (Proof-of-Work) made with the cryptocurrency.”
Bull.shit. Bull. Fucking shit. He announced they’d instead allow crypto bros to buy any Tesla merch they wanted from the site using crypto, just not the cars themselves because the price of bitcoin is too unstable for any big purchases besides drugs. It had nothing to do with the electrical cost. And you’re telling me crypto daddy musk had to be told by activists that bitcoin uses a ton of electricity?
Elon if you want me to have kids you're going to have to give me money.
i need some actual theory on this its rather fascinating that the only long/medium term issue economists and capitalist princes seem to care about is increasing the population of workers
but spare no thought for preserving the current ones. or making the environment more amenable to sustaining them. idk its pretty weirdly incongruous. like its not a religious thing with a lot of these people, could it all be racism? but its kind of talked about in asia too (maybe in very different terms tho idk)
And to emphasize the urgency of depopulating western countries, which currently produce the majority of the wealth of our world, the whimsical boss wishes to remind us that he still considers that global warming is a big and crucial problem for the planet. He seems to suggest that it is more a matter of priority. Basically, we have to redefine the priorities. And at the top of the list should be the issue of population.
Musk is definitely doing "white replacement" stuff. He's also aware that a reduction in the population leads to a massive surge in worker power and the ability of the working class to negotiate as the surplus army of labor vanishes.
So he's doubling down on the racism in service of maintenance of the exploitation of the global proletariat, which is why they also care about declining birth rates in industrial colonies and nations like Africa, China, and South East Asia.
obviously mr musk is doing racism, but him & nate bronze are far from the only 'purveyors' of this.
but here's a thought: doing other things that might net workers costs money to companies. worker safety = less productivity, fixing environment = paying to not pollute.
i was thinking about this wrong, in terms of ROI: a program to pump more babies aint netting workers for 14-18 years---which as we know is far far too ahead of time for companies to actually plan. looking at it this way, making baby workers is a similar timescale to what you'd want to do to improve the environment, and preserving current labor has an even 'faster' ROI. thus my initial confusion
but they aren't talking about trying to increase population in a systemic manner, that'd cost money. they want to get rid of current expenditures that make it possible for poor people to avoid pregnancy :scared:
in other words, no family planning, not even eugenics, no looking into medical & social reasons for declining fertility in western nations. its a return to the golden age standard of putting enough people in enough agonizing squalor and poverty that they'll multiply even if they don't really want to :doomer:
:npc: "We need to increase the global human population!"
Black people in Africa: "Good to hear friend!"
:npc-upset:
