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PCMag Senior

Features Editor

Chandra Steele got

her tech journalism

start at CMP/United

Business Media. She

also writes fiction and

has been published

in McSweeney’s

Internet Tendency.

Musk announced that he would move Tesla’s

headquarters to the state. While Tesla will

maintain its existing factories in California and

Nevada, any woman who wants to work at

headquarters will have to make the choice

between her job and bodily autonomy.

But what is a woman’s decision worth when Musk

feels that the biggest risk to humanity is that they

aren’t producing enough people? At 7KH:DOO

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“I think one of the biggest risks to civilization is

the low birth rate and the rapidly declining birth

rate.” Never mind maternal mortality rates and

that the country where he has made his tax-free

billions has the worst maternal care in the

developed world.

Musk is often praised for his plans to move

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which is his desire to make humans a multi-

planet species. Maybe before he does, he should

consider the harm he’s doing to half of the species

on this planet.

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