Quote from: K-Dog on Nov 04, 2023, 11:52 PM

QuoteThe whole bizness is so FUBAR I'm amazed anybody is having any kids at all.  It's just insane.

Musk is, and I doubt he is done.

Granted as true, but I really wasn't including the .0001% class of Global Billionaires through the .01 class of people worth $20M or so with an annual income of say $1M.

As far as Musk's conspicuous consumption of trophy mothers for his spawn goes, at least he seems to employ them sequentially and keep them around for an average of 3-5 years each before trading them in for a newer model.  Basically the same frequency you would expect to trade in your used Tesla car for the latest model.  Trump actually maintained his wives for around 15-20 years each through plastic surgery and regular lube jobs and engine maintenance.

This sort of behavior has always been the case with rich men, who before they are usually finished with showing off their power in their 70s have accumulated 4 or 5 ex-wives and the accompanying alimony payments, kept manageable through the careful use of pre-nups drawn up by their team of lawyers.  Some aren't even finished in their 70s, Al Pacino recently fathered another child at the age of 82.

In Western culture, this sort of sequential monogamy is the acceptable method for elite class men to display their power.  Middle Eastern and Asian cultures have long had the Harem as the preferred method, where a powerful Sheik or Sultan or Maharajah could have 100 wives and concubines running around his household to choose from on a given night.  Said men who use the shotgun method of sreading out their sperm can have children measuring in the hundreds.

Far as parenting goes, the British method of Boarding Schools is preferred, where the kids are sent off at age 6 or so for 1st Grade, continue through Eton for HS, then university at Cambridge.  The only time dad ever sees his kids id during summer vacations and Holidays.  Nannies cover the job from infancy until school age, so mom is free for her daily tasks of wandering around to charities and evening parties on the yacht, until she is replaced and has her nice alimony check to continue hanging around elite class social events and either marry another billionaire if she is a real hot ticket like a Za Za Gabor, or she has a sequence of boy toys to stay happy, having succeeded using her looks to make it up to the elite class in her teens or 20s.

Regardless how many kids these women pop out of their very expensive vaginas, because there are so few of these folks gobally, it's not enough to even keep up the necessary population of 500M called for by the Georgia Guidestones, which is why Elon Musk is in such a tizzy.  His 11 future Elite rulers won't have anyone to populate the servant's quarters and they'll have to do their own laundry and make their own beds.  If only the Masters reproduce and the Slaves don't, the Masters have to become their own Slaves.

OH! THE HORROR!

RE