As other have said, this has nothing to do with people, in general, having kids. The global population continues to grow - there’s more than enough children being born in the world for the purposes of global capitalism, the only reason to be concerned about lowering birth rates. (We won’t even go into issues of growth beyond sustainability, something Musk has pretended to care about in the past.) It’s only developed countries with the declining (or declined) birth rates, so whenever someone starts saying shit like this, it’s about one thing and one thing only - all about white people having more children. This is purely an oblique “replacement theory” reference. Musk has gone full, overt white supremacist on us. (What a fuckin’ shocker.)
Honestly surprised anyone takes him seriously these days. He says enough incredibly stupid shit, in public and private, including about the stuff he’s supposed to know all about, that I find it impossible.
Well, yes, but he’s taken at face value and treated like someone who knows what he’s talking about (even when he clearly doesn’t), which is perverse. He’s shown, over and over, that he either is clueless or lying.
Yeah, that’s what the recent court cases, where you have literally the same people arguing both for forced births and against any sort of vaccine/mask mandates, show - there’s cis het males, who have bodily autonomy, and then there’s, well, everyone else, who doesn’t.
More than that, he’s an extremely lucky capitalist (having lucked into the ground floor of several companies that were wildly overvalued when sold, making him an absolute fortune. But the culture doesn’t want to acknowledge the role of luck in success, so the luck gets treated as genius, instead.
Racists, for one.