Eric Schmidt
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What are our strengths?
We're chaotic, confusing, loud, you know, but we're clever.
We allocate capital smartly.
We have very deep financial markets.
We have this enormous industrial base of universities and entrepreneurs which are represented here.
We should celebrate this.
We should stoke it.
We should make it go faster and faster.
I spent lots of time in Europe because of the Ukraine stuff.
They are so envious of us.
When you're in Asia, they are envious of us.
Don't screw it up, guys.
That's what I want to work on.
Elon is a good friend and he's addressing this issue of population directly himself.
One metric of the success of a society is its ability to reproduce.
And so I think this is a legitimate concern of the West.
It's much worse in Asia.
The Chinese number is about 1.0 for two parents.
In Korea, it's now down to 0.78 for two.
So it's really important to recognize that we as humans are collectively choosing to depopulate and the numbers are staggering, right?