Elon Musk says he’s going to spice up childcare advantages at his corporations as a part of his mission to sort out the “underpopulation disaster” that he adamantly claims is “the most important hazard civilization faces by far.” The world’s richest man presently runs Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and The Boring Firm — he was additionally about to helm Twitter till he tried to again out of the $44 billion buyout, a lot to the discontent of the corporate’s board.
“Children are price it if in any respect attainable,” Musk writes. “I’m planning to extend childcare advantages at my corporations considerably. Hopefully, different corporations do the identical.” Musk’s assertion is available in response to a tweet asking concerning the monetary implications of getting a number of children, a thread that Nick Cannon, who additionally has a rising household, even chimed in on. Musk provides that the Musk Basis will “donate on to households” as nicely, however it’s unclear what precisely this implies. Musk says he’ll share extra particulars about these plans subsequent month.
Children are price it if in any respect attainable. I’m planning to extend childcare advantages at my corporations considerably.
Hopefully, different corporations do identical.
Additionally, Musk Basis plans to donate on to households.
Hopefully, particulars to be introduced subsequent month.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 8, 2022
As identified by Insider, Tesla presently gives as much as 16 weeks of paid household go away, in addition to covers as much as $40,000 for fertility providers. Job listings for Neuralink point out that it provides parental go away, however it’s unclear what sort of family-related advantages SpaceX and The Boring Firm have to supply.
Musk has introduced up a collapsing start charge several instances in the recent past, and rehashed the subject as soon as once more after a report from Insider revealed that Musk had twins with one in all his prime Neuralink executives, Shivon Zilis, final 12 months. Whereas Musk didn’t immediately affirm the report, he tweeted: “Doing my greatest to assist the underpopulation disaster,” shortly after the claims surfaced. Musk, who presently has 9 identified kids, has made huge guarantees in response to tweets previously — some that he’s adopted by on, and a few… not a lot.
By Twitter, he committed to funding Flint, Michigan to assist residents entry clear water — which town just lately used to unveil clear ingesting fountains in colleges — and in addition responded to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s plea to ship over Starlink satellites in the beginning of Russia’s invasion. We’ll need to see if Musk follows by on his promise to extend childcare advantages, or if it’s only a whimsical assertion that his promise to rework Twitter is beginning to seem to be.