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Videogame executive Xu Bo, said to have more than 100 children, and other elites build mega-families, testing citizenship laws and drawing on nannies, IVF and legal firms set up to help them

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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 48 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is less about nationality and citizenship as it is about billionaires skirting laws and exploiting the poor. In this case, it's just foreign billionaires exploiting American poor.

[–] comador@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Elon Musk: Doesn't everyone do that?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Elon's only had 14. Man is clearly slacking.

[–] verdi@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago

"Whatever you do, there's a Chinese person somewhere that does it 10x better"

[–] flightyhobler@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

Ok let's end billionaires

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 26 points 2 days ago

Oh, a billionaire says he has over 100 children and it becomes a whole anti-immigrant panic article in the WSJ.

It's paywalled so I can't know for sure, but I bet they don't even verify the claim. I bet they ran with this because they're onboard with the ending of birthright citizenship.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago

Oh look, rich people being absolute pieces of shit...yet again. On an unrelated note, Free Luigi.

[–] RustyShackleford@piefed.social 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Of course, what rich person hasn’t had the idea of stealing Genghis Khan’s behavior that left around 8% of modern day China his ancestor.

[–] hexabs@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

His decendents?

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What the fuck? Well no worries Trump about to get his way and outlaw that in America. But goddamn what's the end game here?

[–] protist@mander.xyz 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Billionaires

I think you missed this part. Trump's more likely to try to make it illegal to criticize them

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 12 points 2 days ago

Can’t they simply buy citizenship for $1 million now too?

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

The endgame is to build a dynasty. With a 100 kids and billions of dollars he can basically play Queen Victoria and put his kids in positions of power. He can give his kids the best education at the most prestigious schools where they meet the kids of the other elites. He can basically build a massive old boys network within his own family. In the future some of his kids will be leaders of industry, lobbyists and even politicians.

And with so many kids and money good chance one becomes a US senator or even the president

[–] BoycottTwitter@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 days ago

The WSJ may sometimes be less evil than Murdoch's other companies but at the end of the day this is a Murdoch publication and it must not be trusted too much. The ultimate purpose of the article is to build right-wing outrage. The other comments already do a great job explaining how it's really the billionaires who we need to rein in.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He said he hoped to have 20 or so U.S.-born children through surrogacy—boys, because they’re superior to girls—to one day take over his business.

Several of his kids were being raised by nannies in nearby Irvine as they awaited paperwork to travel to China. He hadn’t yet met them, he told the judge, because work had been busy.

Goes on to describe many such cases.

China currently has a 3 child max policy, at which point I don't see the need for a limit. This is something else though.

[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Hey I was about to post about Irvine. The guy that was getting downvoted is kind of right about "farm house", but not really. It's more of a tourism kind of things, they come when they are closing to delivery.

Live close to Irvine. It's kind of like the rumor that goes around neighboring cities.

[–] Lexam@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ok, but have they considered having Canadian babies? American baby values have to be tanking right now.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Right now America is probably the best country in the whole world if you're a billionaire, whole fucking place is being sold around us...

[–] etherphon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

You think some asshole who made billions of dollars on VIDEO GAMES would be more chill, but they're all assholes I guess.

[–] ninexe@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why is it so easy for billionaires to have children while the working class struggles?

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago

Poor people have children all the time. In my daughter's class at school 2 of her friends are from families with 7 siblings. And we live pretty regional. I honestly don't know how they make ends meet.

But it's not stopping people from having kids.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

Sounds like a big pile o bullshit.

The US is a failed state at this point. Ain't no one queuing up to get in.

[–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If anything could convince libs of supporting the end of birthright, it's the threat of hundreds of chinese babies being born to US citizenship.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Its probably a lot more effective at convincing folks that we shouldn't have billionaires

[–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

It's already a bi-partisan consensus that China shouldn't have billionaires

Fortunately for them, they can't do anything about the billionaire problem - so instead they'll focus on the xenophobia

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Race has nothing to do with this. Take "Chinese" out and replace it with literally anything else. They're still billionaires exploiting loopholes.

[–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Birthright isnt a loophole.

If you want to abolish billionaires, you dont need to deal in xenophobic scaremongering to do it; but if you want to abolish birthright, you gotta play all the notes of xenophobia. The billionaire flair is just the lib-spin.

The WSJ publishing this story should tell you everything you need to know about its intent

Edit: otherwise they would be writing about how billionaires are exploiting inheritance

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago
[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When I lived in hacienda heights I saw tons of pregnant women that didn’t speak any English. It was suspected that most of the townhomes/condos in the area were citizenship farms.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There are a ton more legit immigrants than people doing this

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Of course. It was just odd that I was seeing it.

[–] velindora@lemmy.cafe -2 points 2 days ago

“Communist China”