A scanned news headline, that Bezos and Musk are both arguing we need a vastly bigger population, citing the ludicrous reasons that we would, out of this, get more geniuses, Einsteins, Mozarts, Michaelangelos, DaVincis, etc.
This is of course complete and utter self-serving bollocks, and the fact they dared to even utter it speaks as to why they should in no ways be in the position they're in.
"Our economy depends on it..."
No, it does not. Not in the least. Their WEALTH depends on it, on a perpetual stream of lowly paid workers, on an increased number of customers, wage slaves and consumers.
They depend on it. Much like malarial mosquitos would lobby for more humans.
The world, it's resources, are stretched even now to the absolute breaking point. Climate change may well have already tipped the scales and we're all just awaiting the fall.
Zuckerberg, even as I write this, is building a post-apocalyptic bunker to shelter in in Hawaii.
If Bezos or Musk were even slightly concerned about the lack of geniuses in the world they'd be building cathedrals, commissioning paintings and art galleries, executing their divine rite of patronage, donating to universities, schools, paying for Opera, Commissioning Music, Theatre, Film, etc, or investing in public spaces, and a thousand other such trifles that build the spirit of the age and encourage genii to flourish. But the spirit of this age is, already, "every man for himself", and as it stands their community contributions constitute the smallest fraction of their earnings. And by "earnings" I mean pillaging, for they've together earned nothing, merely arrived at the right time, right place, to exploit those who do the work.
Instead, it's "SpaceX" and "Blue Origin", vanity projects that will take them to the stars while our earth is destroyed.
These people, they are despicable, the worst parts of ourselves that we've allowed, encouraged even, to flourish and prosper. No reputable journalist should give voice to their nonsense.
It's time.