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Billionaires like Elon Musk want to save civilization by having tons of genetically superior kids. Inside the movement to take 'control of human evolution.'

Malcolm's "going to want to make business cards that say 'Simone and Malcolm Collins: Hipster Eugenicists," she said with a laugh.

"It's funny that people are so afraid of being accused of Nazism," when they're just improving their own embryos, Simone added, after noting that her Jewish grandmother escaped Nazi-occupied France. "I'm not eliminating people. I mean, I'm eliminating from my own genetic pool, but these are all only Malcolm and me."

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Still, governments that fear the economic impacts of a top-heavy population pyramid, in which the old dramatically outnumber the young, have begun taking extreme measures. "Some countries are becoming less ambitious in ensuring universal access to family planning; some are restricting the right to abortion; some are banning sex education from school curricula; and some are propagating gender stereotypes that run counter to the empowerment and equality of women," Michael Herrmann, a senior advisor on economics and demography at the United Nations Population Fund, wrote in the UN Chronicle on World Population Day.

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Questions about class and bodily autonomy may be exacerbated by new fertility technologies. Demand for surrogate mothers, who are often low-income parents themselves, has skyrocketed in recent years, especially among the ultrawealthy.

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Children from rich families have always enjoyed advantages, from high-quality healthcare and nutrition to expensive education and extracurricular activities. Now some worry that gatekeeping genetic-testing technologies will give the ultrawealthy yet another leg up before they've even left the womb.

https://www.businessinsider.com/pronatalism-elon-musk-simone-malcolm-collins-underpopulation-breeding-tech-2022-11