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When does Elon Musk sleep?
The world’s richest person has been outspoken in recent times regarding underpopulation, saying last December that there are “not enough people” in the world and it could threaten the future of human civilisation.
Our current world population is edging ever closer to eight billion, according to some estimates.
Musk has repeatedly tweeted out his concerns, too.
If there aren’t enough people for Earth, then there definitely won’t be enough for Mars ☹️
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 18, 2022
Well, he’s always been a problem-solver and it appears Musk is doing his utmost to ensure there are sufficient humans to colonise Mars when the time arrives.
According to court documents, he fathered two children in 2021 with Shivon Zilis (pictured above), a top executive at his artificial intelligence company Neuralink.
The Guardian reports:
The world’s wealthiest man now has nine known children, including five children with his first wife, Justine Musk, and two with the singer Claire Boucher, known professionally as Grimes.
Court documents obtained by Insider and published on Wednesday showed that Elon Musk and Zilis filed a petition to change their twin babies’ names to “have their father’s last name and contain their mother’s last name as part of their middle name”.
The petition was filed in Austin, Texas, where the babies were born, and was approved by the judge. Zilis reportedly gave birth in November 2021, weeks before Musk and Boucher had their second child via a surrogate.
News of that second child only leaked when Grimes accidentally revealed it during an interview with Vanity Fair.
36-year-old Zilis was born in Canada and studied economics and philosophy at Yale. Her CV is impressive and she’s featured on both Forbes’ 30 Under 30 and LinkedIn’s 35 Under 35 lists.
According to her LinkedIn, Zilis works as director of operations and special projects at Neuralink, Musk’s neurotechnology firm, which seeks to create human-machine interfaces. She began working at the company in May 2017.
All of a sudden, this tweet from last month referencing decreasing American birth rates makes even more sense:
I mean, I’m doing my part haha
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 14, 2022
We can only hope the billionaire hasn’t been taking parenting notes from his own father, Errol Musk. The two appear to have fallen out and haven’t seen each other in person in six years.
My guess is that the fallout has something to do with the fact that Errol fathered a child with his own stepdaughter.
Just a hunch.
[source:guardian]
