Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk say human population not nearly big enough: ‘If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts’

Ep1cFac3pa1m , 6 months ago

Maybe, but they’d all be working shit jobs for shit money so someone like Bezos or Musk could make a little more money.

AFKBRBChocolate , 6 months ago

No, no, only like half would. You need the other half to buy their products.

31337 , 6 months ago

I’ve seen these arguments gaining prominence on the last few years. I don’t think they care about Mozarts or Einsteins though. If they did, they would use their money and push for policies that would improve the conditions people live in, so all the would-be Mozarts would have a chance to actually becoming one. I think they’re worried global capitalism will collapse if population growth slows too much; which is probably true.

I also wonder if these people are funding all the anti-abortion and anti-contraceptive campaigns around the world… After a quick Google search, I see it’s definitely been on Musk’s mind: businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tucker-carlson-sex-…

ArbitraryValue , 6 months ago

It isn’t very interesting to speculate about a trillion-human future when we’re so close to a post-human future. Plus, Mozart was the product of his genes and his environment; both can be manipulated to create some process with a higher yield of Mozarts than ordinary human reproduction provides.

Slotos , 6 months ago

We already have thousands of Mozarts rotting in poverty. The fact that these two cunts don’t get it is an evidence for them being entitled, racist, pieces of shit.

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

• Stephen Jay Gould

CrushKillDestroySwag , 6 months ago

A trillion is a lot. Even if we all went vegan and the food supply was centrally managed, I’m not sure you could do that on Earth.

jlow , 6 months ago

I’m preeetty sure that’s not how that works but then again Elmo does not behave like someone I would consider being knowledgeable in anything, so no surprise there.

knfrmity , 6 months ago

Instead of billionaires we need to distribute resources equitably and provide education for all. Then we would also have a thousand Mozarts, and a thousand Newtons and a thousand Korolevs and a thousand Pasteurs while we’re at it.

Billionaires are just blocks along the road of civilizational progress and social development.