Back to episode — Episode 2874 CWSA 06/20/25
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it again. The BBC is reporting that the founder and boss of the Telegram app, it's a messaging app, plans to leave his multi-billion dollar fortune to over a hundred children he fathered. A hundred. Now he didn't do it the Elon Musk way. He only had six children the normal way that people have children and all the rest of his hundredish children were because he had donated to a sperm bank. So he…
← Previous segment →at's so safe that you could send a smallish kid, not too small but 12 years old let's say, to their friend's house without having to leave your house. Now imagine that you had essentially free or low-cost child watching stuff while you're working. If you designed your town so it was optimized so the kids had friends and you had people to help you do things when you needed a little help. It would be great to have kids. You'd have parties all the time and there'd be fun sleepovers and it would be wonderful. It's just that if you don't have grandparents around to watch your kids, it's really hard for two people to have a job, which we tend to need these days. Two people to have a job and also raising kids. It's almost so expensive and it's just so hard that you can imagine why people don't do it. But you could design around that. You could engineer a living space. You don't have to live in a 15-minute city. No, it's not a 15-minute city. A
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ll it is is a great place to raise a kid. That's it. That's all it is. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I got for you today. Hope you have a great weekend. I'm going to say a few words privately to the locals people, my beloved locals people, and the rest of you. Hope to see you next week. Well, not next week. We'll see you tomorrow. Same time, same place.
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