A question [politics?]
Oct. 30th, 2024 03:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebeccmeisterYesterday I wound up reading a NYT article about how an exorbitantly wealthy man who owns an electric vehicle company and a government tax dollar rocket ship siphoning company is trying to buy a cluster of houses in Austin, TX so all of his kids with different mothers will be nearby and have chances to get to know each other.
That is how I learned that there are certain people who are supposedly concerned about some notion of "depopulation," which basically involves thinking that demographic shifts that result from declining birth rates (or increased generation lengths) are going to cause massive problems for societies/economic systems.
But this notion seems in this case to actually be cover for supremacist/eugenics thinking, as part of it is apparently tied to the idea that "smart people in particular are having fewer babies." But in this case "smart" appears to be conflated with "economically and racially privileged," as there is mention of reproduction by more highly educated people, and there's bias in who has access to higher ed.
It does NOT appear to be "How can countries and the global population as a whole coordinate and reorganize to help each other based on our different demographies, and expand access to education?"
I guess my question is: WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS?
And, HOW CAN ANYONE BE BUYING PRODUCTS FROM THIS COMPANY????
And, WHY DID THIS STORY HAVE TO GET WRITTEN IN THIS FASHION TO MAKE IT CLEAR WHAT'S ACTUALLY GOING ON HERE?
Sorry for yelling. I just can't even, today.
By the way, it sounds like the house-buying and family aggregating efforts are going about as well as you might expect, as in, not well at all. Really, the Mormons seem to have done a better job of figuring a lot of that out. Not that they're any less patriarchal or potentially horrifying, mind you.
I have honestly been trying hard to avoid learning more about this person because I was so disgusted by the whole social media purchase maneuver.
I might have to take this post down at some point. On the other hand, perhaps there are rebuttals I should hear out?
That is how I learned that there are certain people who are supposedly concerned about some notion of "depopulation," which basically involves thinking that demographic shifts that result from declining birth rates (or increased generation lengths) are going to cause massive problems for societies/economic systems.
But this notion seems in this case to actually be cover for supremacist/eugenics thinking, as part of it is apparently tied to the idea that "smart people in particular are having fewer babies." But in this case "smart" appears to be conflated with "economically and racially privileged," as there is mention of reproduction by more highly educated people, and there's bias in who has access to higher ed.
It does NOT appear to be "How can countries and the global population as a whole coordinate and reorganize to help each other based on our different demographies, and expand access to education?"
I guess my question is: WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS?
And, HOW CAN ANYONE BE BUYING PRODUCTS FROM THIS COMPANY????
And, WHY DID THIS STORY HAVE TO GET WRITTEN IN THIS FASHION TO MAKE IT CLEAR WHAT'S ACTUALLY GOING ON HERE?
Sorry for yelling. I just can't even, today.
By the way, it sounds like the house-buying and family aggregating efforts are going about as well as you might expect, as in, not well at all. Really, the Mormons seem to have done a better job of figuring a lot of that out. Not that they're any less patriarchal or potentially horrifying, mind you.
I have honestly been trying hard to avoid learning more about this person because I was so disgusted by the whole social media purchase maneuver.
I might have to take this post down at some point. On the other hand, perhaps there are rebuttals I should hear out?
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Date: 2024-10-30 10:59 pm (UTC)But why? Your reaction is entirely the correct one.
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Date: 2024-10-31 04:39 am (UTC)The way this particular story got written and published in that particular newspaper is especially interesting to me. I'm glad it was written and published, but have to think the process by which that happened must have been...interesting.