25/05/2022 17:22
Elon Musk, in one of his frequent forays on Twitter, also had the opportunity to talk about Italy by making a categorical prediction linked to the demographic risk.
The histrionic number one of Tesla and Space X, last night opened a discussion on a topic very dear to him, that of the low birth rate, posting a graph in the Wall Street Journal and writing: “The birth rate in the United States is at below the minimum sustainable levels for about 50 years “. In other tweets he added: “Contrary to what many think, the richer a person is, the fewer children he has. They are a rare exception. Most of the people I know have zero or only one child ”. Musk has 7 children.
Musk – protagonist in recent weeks for his $ 44 billion bid to take over Twitterthen put on standby for the numbers linked to fake accounts – he increased the dose by also posting a table of the World Bank of the countries with the lowest birth rates. Italy is also among the nations most at risk, in 191st position with a rate of 1.24.
“South Korea and Hong Kong are experiencing the fastest demographic collapse. Note, 2.1 children per woman is the replacement rate, ”Musk comments.
Tesla’s CEO made a question and answer with the Italian Andrea Stroppa; the latter remarked that in Italy, despite good welfare, the birth rate is collapsing (Stroppa has attached a graph on births from 1946 to 2019 in Italy). Elon Musk replied in a dry way: “Italy will no longer have a population if these trends continue”.