Posted on 05/03/2025 8:24:03 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is obsessed with America’s falling birth rate. In 2019, he predicted that “the biggest problem the world will face in 20 years is population collapse.” Just last month, he told Fox News it’s the main thing that “keeps him up at night.” And according to an April 15 report in the Wall Street Journal, Musk is personally using in vitro fertilization (IVF) to sire what he has described as a “legion” of children — at least 14 so far, with four different women — “before the apocalypse.”
“Low birth rates will end civilization,” the billionaire warned last week on X (which he owns).
Musk’s preoccupation is so intense — and his sway with President Trump so strong — that the White House is now reportedly considering various right-wing “pronatalist” policies to incentivize and encourage more births: $5,000 lump-sum “baby bonuses” for every American mother after delivery; government-funded programs to educate women on their menstrual cycles so they can better understand when they are able to conceive; even a “National Medal of Motherhood” for women with at least six children.
"Sounds like a good idea to me," Trump said Tuesday when asked about the possibility of a federal baby bonus.
But do everyday Americans share Musk and Trump’s concern?
Not really, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll. The survey of 1,597 U.S. adults, which was conducted from April 25-28, shows that only 8% of them say they’re “very worried” — and just 32% say they’re worried at all — about the U.S. birthrate falling “significantly over the past 20 years."
In contrast, nearly six in 10 Americans (59%) say they’re “not very worried” (30%) or “not worried at all” (29%).
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
Hes very wrong about this.
I dont hold it against him. No one is correct on everything.
No, we dont need to pay women for the one unique thing they can do. Our entire society is too gynocentric already.
It’s because Musk can do simple math. Countries like South Korea, Japan, Italy, etc. will lose 95% of their population in the next hundred years if child birth rates continue as they currently are... And I’m not exaggerating in the slightest. Many other countries are not much better off, too .
We don’t need more people, we need better people.
A modern, democratic nation (except for Israel) will eventually cease to exist.
The world will be very different in 100 years. Hate to say it but it looks better for Islam.
And this country will not get back to the traditional family model until government spending gets back to 10% of GDP or whatever measurement of wealth production is used. Right now it's about 30%. One breadwinner can't supply government at all levels with the cash flow needed to support government spending at current levels.
I connected a lot of dots to get the first 2 paragraphs done, but trying to solve a perceived baby shortage in a vacuum is not going to work. It's like trying to solve education in a vacuum, or gun violence, or poverty.
Bottom line - adults need a reason to have babies. Getting there is not one solution, but a series of changes in our society and ourselves.
Recent African immigrants to the USA are highly educated, hard working, close family values and push their kids to succeed in education.
They do not want to be associated with the current “African-American” culture.
I would note that the current AA culture is something that Martin Luther king would have been disgusted with
Many of those “white” kids would be children of reent immigrants, like Sergey Brins children.
Are the children of recent European or Russian immigrants more “white” to you than 3rd generation Hispanics who may be pale skinned like Anya Taylor Joy?
“Countries like South Korea, Japan, Italy, etc. will lose 95% of their population in the next hundred years if child birth rates continue as they currently are..”
In the 1960s Malthusian theories said that the world would reach 20 billion if the birth rates remained as they were in 1960.
Guess what, the birth rates dropped, even in poor countries: Bangladesh for example dropped from 6 kids per woman to below replacement level today.
The birth rates will even out by 2060 or 2080. People live much longer, In 1960, the global average life expectancy at birth was approximately 50.09 years. By 2023, it had increased to around 73.16 years.
(https://www.statista.com/statistics/805060/life-expectancy-at-birth-worldwide/)
That’s nearly 50% longer.
Which is why the government needs to get out of the marriage business. You want to get married? You go to your church.
We should replace income tax with sales tax. The government shouldn't know your martial status.
Sounds scientific.
exactly — the vast majority have yet to know & understand Musk’s message
It looks worse for Islam - the Islamic world, encompassing Muslim-majority countries, has experienced a significant decline in birth rates since 1960.
In 1960, the total fertility rate (TFR)—the average number of children born per woman—was typically high, ranging from 5 to 8 across most Muslim-majority countries. By 2023, the TFR in many of these countries has dropped to between 1.3 and 4, with some approaching or falling below the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman needed to sustain a population.
This decline reflects a broader global trend but is particularly pronounced in the Islamic world, where six of the ten largest absolute fertility declines in a two-decade period post-World War II occurred in Muslim-majority countries (Oman, Maldives, Kuwait, Iran, Algeria, and Libya).
By 2023, 16 Muslim-majority countries had TFRs at or below the replacement level (e.g., Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1.3, UAE: 1.4, Iran: 1.7, Turkey: 1.9, Indonesia: 2.1).
The overall Muslim population growth rate has slowed from 2.2% annually (1990–2010) to a projected 1.5% annually (2010–2030)
Iran: TFR fell from over 6 in the mid-1980s to 1.7 in 2023
Saudi Arabia: TFR declined from 7.2 in 1960 to 2.4 in 2023
UAE: TFR dropped from 6.97 in 1960 to 1.4 in 2023, among the lowest in the region
Egypt: TFR remained stable at ~7 through the 1970s but declined to ~3 by 2023
Oman: Recorded the world’s largest fertility decline, with TFR plummeting from ~8.6 to ~3 over 30 years (a drop of 5.6 births per woman).
Bangladesh: TFR dropped from ~6.9 to 1.9, one of the steepest declines,
Malaysia: TFR dropped from ~6 to 1.8,
Indonesia: TFR fell from 5.6 in the 1960s to 2.1 in 2023
Even Pakistan: TFR declined from ~6.7 in 1960 to 3.6 in 2023, but the decline is slower than peers due to limited family planning and cultural factors. Pakistan’s population growth remains high, making it the fifth most populous country
The global TFR halved from 5 in 1950 to 2.2 in 2021, and Muslim-majority countries have followed this trend, though at varying paces
Elon has,I believe, 15 children. He’s doing his part.
And that is what ticks off the leftist media who privately want genocide of whites.
Are you saying Elon Musk is a racist? Why does he employ so many non-whites in his businesses? Yesterday Lara Trump interviewed 3 Tesla employees and 2 of them were not white.
Okay, but all those countries you listed ALREADY have mucho benefits by law for new mothers. It has not worked.
Would the “baby bonus” apply to welfare recipients who just can’t seem to stop spittin our babies? And what about the baby daddy’s?
In recent years, with the corruption in ADC they just borrow their sisters and neighbors little ones, claim they were born at home, and get the $$ without the muss and fuss of actual children. As for getting their groove on they go to get the unwanted cells vacuumed out at regular intervals.
The Babylon Bee had an article on this:
https://babylonbee.com/news/global-fertility-rates-hit-historic-lows-as-elon-musk-busy-with-doge
Elon responded ‘must I do everything myself?
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