Paris MarxApr 21, 2023

Silicon Valley’s elite made their billions through luck, not genius. But as the public turns on them, they want to protect their privilege, so they’re trying to convince us they’re inherently superior.

For Disconnect, I explain how billionaires like Elon Musk are bringing eugenics back by promoting effective altruism, longtermism, and pronatalism. The goal is to cement their position at the top, and we need to stop them.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/why-silicon-valley-is-bringing-eugenics

#tech #elonmusk #inequality

Why Silicon Valley is bringing eugenics back

Elon Musk is the most prominent face of the effort to protect tech's privilege

Disconnect
Show threadSam MinnéeApr 21, 2023
@parismarx @jackyan as countries birth rates increasingly drop below replacement rate, pronatalism seems like… a reasonable position? Certainly recognising that while we don’t all have to raise kids, *some* of us do if we want to have a functioning society when we’re old. Combined with the fact that raising a child is a massively difficult undertaking, framing child-rearing as a social services and having society support it more seems like good policy in countries with declining birth rates.
Show threadJoe DowlandApr 22, 2023
@sminnee @parismarx @jackyan but, since the population of earth is overall increasing, perhaps encouraging immigration would be better
Show threadSam MinnéeApr 22, 2023
@Aradiel @parismarx @jackyan that too.
Show threadParis Marx
@sminnee @Aradiel @jackyan Agreed on the immigration point, but also wanted to say the pronatalist movement I’m talking about is not advocating for social policies like public healthcare, free childcare, longer parental leave, or anything like that because they’re all rich and only really concered about rich (white) people having more kids. That’s why they talk more about picking the right embryos and stuff like that.
Apr 22, 2023 at 11:56amWeb
Show threadJoe DowlandApr 22, 2023
@parismarx @sminnee @jackyan don't get me wrong, it's obviously racist eugenics, and they definitely wouldn't encourage immigration because that would mean more of the people with the "wrong" attributes (eg skin tone)
Show threadSam MinnéeApr 23, 2023
@parismarx @Aradiel @jackyan yeah I guess one word can cover a lot of philosophies.