Elon Musk compares the current population decline with the Romans: “Low birth rates were a big deal for …”

Elon Musk was loud about the decline in the population, especially in countries like South Korea. In a recently published article the Tesla The CEO emphasized a historical trend in which wealthy civilizations such as the Romans around 50 BC. Low birth ratesA pattern that he sees repeated today. He claimed that the failure of the Roman Empire to reverse this trend.
The musk response came in an answer to a contribution in which the three things that are promoting the change in the cost of cost of children are:
Children no longer earn – some stay at school until they are 30.
Children cost a lot due to inflation and college.
Government pensions do not mean children if they are old.

Musk says that the population collapses due to “hedonism”

Musk led the Population On human tendencies on hedonism and envy that desire to have the desire to have children in times of wealth.
“In the course of history, periods of longer prosperity for civilizations have always led to a decline in the population,” said Musk.
“In contrast, if the civilizations are rich, they have fewer children because most people cannot cognitively overwrite the limbic attraction of hedonism and envy, the latter being particularly harmful,” he added.

He noticed that the failure of the Roman Empire to reverse this trend despite extensive debate, serves as a warning story for modern societies that confronts itself with similar demographic challenges.
“Low birth rates were already ~ 50 BC for the Romans.
In the past, Musk has used several Asian countries, including South Korea, Japan and Singapore.
“Singapore will be extinct in a certain amount of time,” wrote Musk, expressing concern about South Korea and Japan.
In a article, Musk quoted a graphic that was originally published by the Tesla owner Silicon Valley account. The contribution, the “collapse of the population is the greatest threat to mankind”, received Elon Musk a confirmation “yes” from the Tesla CEO.
Musk also marked Koreas exceptionally low fertility rate.
“With current birth rates, Korea will be about 4% of its current size in three generations … maybe even less than that. They are only a third replacement rate,” he said.