While many of Elon Musk’s celebrity billionaire peers seem to think that overpopulation is
a major concern, the SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO thinks the opposite.
According to Elon Musk, the world isn’t having enough kids, and he’s looking to
do his part in rectifying this!
Elon has had eight kids over the course of his lifetime with two different women.
Although he’s currently single, it appears that he’d like to have even more kids down
the line!
People have always questioned Elon Musk’s number of children, but the celebrity billionaire’s
recent remarks about underpopulation give his life choices a different context.
Join Trender as Elon Musk finally revealed why he’s pumping out children.
Given that he was named TIME magazine’s person of the year in 2021, it’s not hard
to deduce that celebrity billionaire Elon Musk is a pretty influential figure.
The SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO’s fans cling on to nearly every cryptic word that
the eccentric man says, and this means that his actions and ideas are oftentimes held
up to greater scrutiny than they would be otherwise.
Because of this, many were rubbed the wrong way as a result of Elon’s recent remarks
regarding what he feels is a dangerous downward trend in worldwide birthrates.
While most of Elon Musk’s celebrity billionaire peers would have you believe that the world
is dying from overpopulation and climate change, Elon feels that the real risk to civilization
is quite the opposite: underpopulation.
Elon Musk first publicly expressed his underpopulation theory at an event hosted by the Wall Street
Journal, which occurred in December of 2021.
During the event, Elon responded to ideas regarding the need for global population control.
Of course, Elon’s fellow tech billionaires, like Bill Gates, suggesting that people need
to be having fewer children in order to make the world more sustainable.
Many expected Elon to take a similar route when pressed, especially considering that
the tech billionaire spends so much of his time trying to colonize other planets.
People were surprised when Elon Musk came out with his theory that there was actually
an underpopulation problem that was beginning to occur throughout the world.
The catalyst for Elon expressing his theory was the reveal of his new robot, the Tesla
Bot, which he claims will be able to perform a variety of menial functions, substituting
the need for human labor in many cases.
Following the reveal of his new robot, Elon expressed that he was inspired to create it
as a result of declining birthrates across the world.
According to Elon Musk, there aren’t enough people in the world.
Of course, most would try to tell you otherwise, but Elon is adamant that he’s right and
they’re wrong.
Following his lengthy sermon about the need for people around the world to have more children,
Elon then went on to jokingly express to the audience that he was practicing what he was
preaching in his own life, having fathered eight kids.
The reason that many think that overpopulation is a concern is because of things like climate
change, poverty, and resource scarcity.
One might look at Elon Musk’s dream of space colonialization and assume that the celebrity
billionaire has some fears that the world might not be able to contain people for very
much longer.
However, it seems that what Elon is actually worried about is there not being enough people
for him to take to Mars when the time comes.
When the world caught wind of Elon Musk’s remarks regarding supposed underpopulation
during this Wall Street Journal-sponsored event, many on social media were quick to
criticize the celebrity billionaire.
Some of the biggest criticisms came from people pointing out that the reason that many people
around the world aren’t having children is that they can’t afford to, something
that a billionaire like Elon would have no concept of.
Others suggested that Elon should work on his relationships with his own children before
preaching to the world that having more is the answer.
Elon Musk is now 50 years old.
The SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO was born in South Africa, and his parents made note
of his extreme intelligence at a young age.
The future billionaire made his first sale at the age of 12, selling a video game that
he coded to a computer magazine.
Elon Musk gradually built up his fortune with various endeavors before becoming the CEO
of Tesla and rising to prominence as an eccentric billionaire.
He subsequently created SpaceX, which is now his main passion.
Besides his business endeavors, Elon has also hosted Saturday Night Live twice.
Although Elon Musk is currently single, he has been in several serious relationships
over the past few decades.
He has fathered children with two different mothers, with his most recent child having
been born in 2021.
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Following Elon Musk’s statement regarding his theories of underpopulation at the aforementioned
Wall Street Journal-sponsored event in December of 2021, Elon went on to double down on his
theories in early 2022.
Elon shared a series of tweets via his Twitter account showing statistics that indicated
that birthrates have decreased across the world.
While the statistics may have been accurate in showing that birthrates have slightly decreased
in the past few decades, most feel that they are still too high given the world’s resources.
Elon Musk is currently hard at work with SpaceX trying to get humans onto Mars.
According to the celebrity billionaire, he could be able to get humans onto the planet
within five years.
However, this won’t be able to occur if there aren’t any human beings left by that
point!
Elon Musk has also hinted at the fact that decreasing birthrates have historically been
a bad sign for populations, which is an argument that certainly isn’t without its merits.
The declining birthrates around the world certainly do point to legitimate problems
of resource scarcity and wealth gaps, but Elon seems less interested in addressing these
actual problems than he is in fantasizing about Mars.
While Elon Musk isn’t fixing the real-world problems that are preventing people from having
more children, he is having as many children of his own as possible.
As stated, the celebrity billionaire has fathered eight children over the course of his lifetime,
with two different mothers.
Claire Boucher, better known by her professional name Grimes, is the most recent woman that
Elon has fathered children with.
The two were dating for several years, starting in 2018.
Grimes had already risen to prominence as a pop star prior to hooking up with Elon,
and she wasn’t entirely comfortable with becoming second fiddle to the celebrity billionaire
in the eyes of the tabloids.
However, they still tried to make it work.
According to Grimes, life with Elon Musk was difficult for reasons besides the fact that
his celebrity overshadowed her own.
The singer claims that her and Elon were constantly getting harassed, which led to the two of
them having to continuously move around to different homes.
Besides Grimes, the other woman that Elon has fathered children with his Justine Wilson,
whom he was married to for eight years, from 2000 to 2008.
Elon fathered six children with Justine, and then fathered another two with Grimes.
Elon Musk and Justine Wilson first met while they were attending Queen's University together
in Ontario, Canada.
Throughout their marriage, the two had six children, and they have shared custody of
their children in the years following their 2008 divorce.
Sadly, Elon and Justine’s first child died tragically of sudden infant death syndrome
at the age of only 10 weeks.
This child was named Nevada and was born and passed away in 2002.
Following the tragic loss of their first child, Elon and Justin persevered.
They ended up getting incredibly lucky with their next two batches.
After the death of their first child in 2002, Elon Musk and Justine Wilson began experimenting
with in vitro fertilization, fearing that Nevada’s death had been the result of some
genetic condition or birth defect.
Perhaps as a result of this treatment, Justine went on to conceive shortly afterward and
give birth to twins!
If this wasn’t enough, two years after giving birth to her and Elon’s twins, she conceived
once again and gave birth to triplets.
These triplets were born in 2006, and Elon and Justine divorced two years later.
After fathering six children, Elon Musk could’ve easily called it a day and focused his remaining
energy on his business endeavors.
However, Elon seems intent on having as many children as he possibly can!
In 2010, not long after divorcing Justine, Elon married a woman by the name of Tallulah
Riley… twice.
They first married in 2010 before divorcing in 2012.
They then remarried in 2013 before divorcing in 2016.
Over the course of Elon’s on-and-off-again marriage with Tallulah, the two didn’t have
any children.
It was in 2018 that Elon Musk was first spotted with pop star Grimes, who had risen to prominence
over the course of the previous decade thanks to her strange electronic music and unique
image.
Given that the two were essentially just nerds at heart, it wasn’t all that surprising
to the public when Elon Musk and Grimes began dating.
Elon and Grimes welcomed their first child in 2020.
Despite the fact that her and Elon have no plans to continue their relationship, Grimes
announced just recently that she and Elon welcomed another child in late 2021, around
the time that they separated.
Both of Elon and Grimes’ children have strange names that neither celebrity can fully agree
on how to accurately pronounce.
Although most of Elon Musk’s celebrity billionaire peers think that the world is dying from overpopulation,
Elon seems to think that underpopulation is the issue.
Now it’s time to hear from you: did you know that Elon Musk and Grimes can’t agree
on how to pronounce the names of their children and that 50-year-old Elon has fathered eight
children over the course of his lifetime and is hoping for many more?
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