Elon Musk has been making explicitly anti-trans statements, even though he has a trans daughter. He also did an interview with Fox News recently where he seemed based on what he was saying, it seemed like he was very critical of birth control and women's access to abortions. And so the tech industry and people in the tech industry are very powerful and very influential, right? I feel like there has been kind of a changing in how the public thinks about these people but they still hold this position in society that comes with a lot of influence.
Paris Marx is joined by Julia Black to discuss tech billionaires’ embrace of pronatalism and how it’s part of a broader rationalist project to remake society and protect their privileged positions.
Julia Black is a senior correspondent at Insider and previously worked at Esquire and Vox. Follow Julia on Twitter at @mjnblack.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.
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