According to a new report, billionaire Elon Musk, who runs world-famous companies, has donated to fertility and population research projects in Texas.
According to Bloomberg, Musk, who has expressed a belief that a population crash could wipe out humanity, donated $10 million to the University of Texas at Austin's Population Welfare Initiative through his philanthropic arm, the Musk Foundation. .
Bloomberg reported that Musk funded a two-day conference (the Population Welfare Initiative) last October, but the group did not initially disclose the 52-year-old billionaire's participation.
A collaborative effort between the Center for Population Studies at the University of Texas Austin and the Department of Economics, the Population Wellbeing Initiative includes a "network of researchers" who do seminal work in economics, demographics, and wellbeing assessment. be social.
Specifically, the Population Welfare Initiative examines issues related to fertility, parenting, future population and economic growth, and child and infant care.
Business Insider reports that a paper written by the Population Welfare Initiative and co-authored by its director, Dean Spears, contains a prediction; Any reversal, otherwise humanity is threatened with a "sudden decline".
Most notably, Musk is the business owner of Neuralink, the brain chip company he co-founded.
Musk's policy of encouraging people to have children aims to demonstrate his desire to prevent what he sees as "advanced societies" from dying out due to low birth rates of intellectual geniuses.
Business Insider previously reported that Musk believes wealth is directly related to IQ and has urged "every rich person he knows" to have as many children as possible.
In a previous article on Platform X, Musk said; In response to reports of the Neuralink controversy, "I'm doing everything I can to help solve the underpopulation crisis." "Declining birth rates are the greatest threat to civilization," he added. .