A New York Times story about rich men trying to have as many kids as possible, and why it might not be so bad. Adam and Tom talk about it, and whether it's a good or bad thing, and what it means for the economy.
00:01:20.980who says his sperm donations have produced more than 100 children,
00:01:24.300Greg Lindbergh, who reported expanded his family to at least 12 children through what he called a baby project
00:01:30.620and claims that some wealthy Chinese businessmen have sought to father hundreds of children through U.S. surrogacy agencies.
00:01:37.460Elon Musk, who has 14 known children, reportedly, who wants to use surrogate to reach a legion level0.90
00:01:42.540and joked that Derov's total represented rookie numbers, laugh at my ass off, Genghis Khan.
00:01:47.800Many of these men appear to view spreading their DNA as a public good.
00:01:52.140Musk has said smart or even rich people should have more children.
00:01:56.000DeRove called the sperm high-quality donor material.
00:01:59.200Jeffrey Epstein reportedly admired a sperm bank associated with Nobel Prize winners.
00:02:03.200The common thread is a belief that their bloodlines deserve to be multiplied.
00:02:07.800Modern reproductive technology allows these ambitions to expand far beyond historical limits.
00:02:12.920IVF and surrogacy make it possible to create many pregnancies simultaneously while selecting traits such as sex or screening embryos for disease.
00:02:21.140One egg donor said Lindbergh wanted 12 blonde-haired, blue-eyed boys,
00:02:26.400while Epstein's email reflected a similar fixation on blue eyes.
00:02:31.560Musk has reportedly used polygenic embryo screening.
00:02:35.520Tom, what do you think about the story?
00:02:37.600So I wonder if the New York Times understands that kid-maxing involves not having abortions.0.61
00:03:07.680The reason they bring up Genghis Khan is because there were these leaders in history that wanted to have many kids and they wanted their heritage to be spread.
00:03:17.480And so, you know, do I think that there's people out there doing this?
00:07:56.440My father was there, but he wasn't there.
00:07:59.420I get to see how Tom raises his daughters.
00:08:01.540I get to see every single day how you do it with the girls and the boys.
00:08:06.000And I see it, and I don't even know how you do it.
00:08:08.560The work that you guys put into these children to make them amazing human beings.
00:08:12.480And I'm seeing, for the past four years, I'm seeing it, Pat.
00:08:15.760And I don't think it's possible to do that with all these kids.
00:08:18.380Pat, what if they all turn into some America-hating socialist, you know, what is the, Adam, the Sharia law-loving, you know, everybody hating America.
00:08:31.780Like, the odds of them, Pat, turning into the kids that you have made up to this point, I think, are slim to none.
00:13:14.640But what I'm trying to say is I'm wondering if you have between the two who is going to be a bigger net positive society.
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