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Elon Musk sure knows how to be trending topic. There are days that for various topics even. This time it is not a controversial statement, as when in March I challenged Putin to “one-on-one combat” for Ukraine, but behind it there are 44,000 million dollars and nine children.
First, the money. The owner of Tesla and SpaceX announced last Friday that he finally wants to withdraw the offer to buy Twitter, announced three months ago, alleging that he has found incorrect information about the number of fake accounts that swarm the social network. So he risks paying high compensation to shareholders and having them take him to court, and he wants to give up trying to take over the company. As one user summarizes: “He said he wanted to buy Twitter regardless of the price to clean it of fake accounts. He now says he doesn’t want to buy it because he has a lot of fake accounts.” And another answers: “It’s not the same to clean a network that they tell you has approximately 5% of false accounts than one that you find may have up to more than 25% of false accounts.”
Thousands of tweets think about it. “He never had a serious intention. It was simply making a statement and everyone believed in the purchase,” says one user, while another comes out in defense of Musk’s decision: “One may want to buy a house with the intention of remodeling it and change his mind when he sees that there is no remedy. ”.
Be that as it may, the soap opera has given a lot of itself. If, as it seems, he ends up in court, he will give much more, especially since the billionaire is still active on the social network (the lack of transparency that he uses to withdraw his offer has not led him, for the time being, to close his account, where he has more 80 million followers, bots included). And he is not short on self-esteem either to say what he thinks, as evidenced by the fact that last year he even proclaimed himself “emperor of Mars” on Twitter in the context of SpaceX ship launches.
And that brings us to the second recent controversy: an American media published that Musk has had twins with an executive of one of his companies and that, in total, he already has nine children (there is a tenth that died at ten weeks of birth) with different partners. “I am doing what I can to help in the current depopulation crisis. The falling birth rate is one of the great dangers facing civilization,” he tweeted last week after the news broke.
Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis.
A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 7, 2022
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Musk’s large family has generated all kinds of comments. “That’s why Tesla is making trucks,” says one user jokingly. But most of the criticism is directed at the fact that many cannot afford to have so many children (sometimes not even one) or at the negative effects of an overpopulated world. To which Musk also answers on the social network that birth rates are falling dangerously in the world and that the population is going to decrease over the years. “We are currently overpopulated in terms of resource use, and declining birth rates may offset that,” one user replies.
Resources are not lacking for Musk, of course, to raise his large family. But will she have time for his children? More than one asks it on Twitter. The businessman assured a few years ago that he spends with them a large part of the hours that he is not at work. What seems clear is that those free moments should not be many, if it is true, as he says, that he works an average of between 80 and 100 hours a week. Of course he also claims that he is the king of multitasking and in 2013 he admitted that he responds to email when he is with them. In parenting forums there is a question that is already a classic: in caring for children, is quality time more important or the amount of time you spend with them? What will Musk think?
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