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There's so much to unpack with this video. Like, a lot.
Decreased birthrates aren't a problem. People have no issue, whatsoever, in making more people. People just can't afford it. Fix the money problem, first, and you'll give people the ability to live more comfortably to have kids. Also, not everyone is going to get married and have kids. At no point is someone obligated to reproduce just to bring the numbers back up, and lulls in reproductive rates are going to happen as society adjusts to the trends of an aging vs expansive populace. If we eliminated "all the bad stuff in the world" and forced mate pairing of every man and woman, we'd eventually have skyscrapers covering every square inch of surface land on the planet.
Nobody wants that.
Cities are more crowded than they have ever been. There are more people on the earth, now, than at any point in time in human history. Population isn't the issue, and reproduction happens every day. The issues are how governments are interfering with everything from labor markets, to economies, to people's personal choices in how they want to live their life. If I was a conspiracy minded person, I would say having the government pay people to stay home and not work created a labor gap that robots/AI will just have to step in and fill because "this stuff needs to be done!". They bring up the fact that the population is getting older in the beginning of the conversation, as if there's a concern with the aging population, then later in the interview ask Elon why he's not interested in helping people live longer.
Elon helping people with Neurolink is awesome.
Robots being used to do shit jobs is great, but what are people going to do when these jobs are gone?
Money is more than a database. It's the very mechanism of the economy, and most importantly to everyone, raises and lowers quality of life.
When robots and AI eliminate nearly every services and hard labor job in the world, what is that going to do to economies? I've heard Elon suggest before that corporations and governments should, perhaps, have different currencies and different economies. This was brought up in that chat with Jack when they were talking about crypto currencies and such. I think the thing that irks me the most about the interview is they don't even mention/address all the obvious issues with everything once all the jobs are eliminated and people have no money to raise these super duper big families they are supposed to be spitting out.