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Elon Musk Is Completely Wrong About Overpopulation
The truth: Fewer people means fewer profits for corporate billionaires
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7 min readJul 11, 2022
The money-grifting meme-king is at it again.
Not content to just grab taxpayer money by the billions, evade taxes, shill pyramid schemes, and lose hundreds of billions in investor capital — Tesla is down $220 billion since we published this article, and still has another $700 billion to go — oligarch Elon Musk thinks he knows the biggest danger to civilization.
It also might be the dumbest thing he’s ever tweeted, and that’s saying a lot:
Obviously, this tweet is hyperbole in the extreme.
There are quite literally thousands of bigger dangers to civilization, including:
- Corporations resetting the global economy to feudalism
- Lack of freshwater
- Droughts and famines causing mass starvation
- Corporations continuing to cause crushing price inflation
- Global roasting
- Institutional investors pushing the average house price to $10…
