“I’m doing everything I can to help with the depopulation crisis. The collapse of the birth rate is by far the greatest danger that civilization will face. Heed my words, unfortunately they are true”. For example, just a few days ago, Elon Musk (51 years old) confirmed detailed information from American media Business Insider, in which they revealed that the businessman secretly had twins with Shivon Zilis (36 years old), someone else’s executive, last November of its companies, Neuralink. How could it be otherwise, the CEO of Tesla communicated it via his Twitter account where he is a hyperactive user.
To date, Elon Musk has already known 10 children with the twins: he had the first six with his ex-wife, the Canadian author Justine Wilson, one of whom died ten weeks after birth. Musk and Wilson met as students at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, married in 2000 and legally divorced in 2008. He admitted spending his free time with his children and described them as the love of his life.
I’m doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis.
A collapse in the birth rate is by far the greatest threat to civilization.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 7, 2022
In 2018, Musk and singer-songwriter Grimes began dating and had their first child, X Æ A-12, in 2020. After seven children, his concept of fatherhood had changed, as he himself admitted in a lengthy interview in The New York Times in 2020: “Babies are just eating and pooping machines, you know?” Musk said, “in there is not much I can do the same. Grimes plays a much bigger role than me at the moment. When the child grows up, there will be more paper for me. I guess I’ll just do what I’ve done with my other kids. For example, if I have a Tesla trip to China, I’ll take the kids and we’ll see the Great Wall, or take the bullet train from Beijing to Xian and see the Terracotta Warriors.”
In that interview, he already mentioned his concerns about depopulation when asked about his last child: “I think babies are very cool and people need to have more babies because although it sounds obvious, when the people don’t have enough babies”.
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In November 2021, the twins she had with Shivon Zilis, an executive at Neuralink, were born. And in December of the same year, a few weeks later, his second daughter was born with Grimes, christened Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, through a surrogate mother.
Elon Musk’s pinned tweet, which greets on his Twitter account any user who wants to take a look at what the businessman is saying there, was posted in May this year and is a capture of a report by The Wall Street Journal newspaper showing a graph showing data on the decline in the United States’ fertility rate, the demographic index that measures how many children a woman of childbearing age could have. In the case of the US, the value is 2.01, which means that the next generations cannot replace the previous ones. “America’s birth rate has been below the sustainable minimum for 50 years,” the businessman tweeted, “contrary to popular belief that the richer a person is, the fewer children they have. I’m a rare exception. Most people I know have zero or one child,” he added. “The last two years have been a demographic catastrophe. Well, even though I’ve done my part, hehe”.