Musk and thiel, two of the worlds richest men who exclusively made their wealth in tech companies, aren't tech related?

It’s not an investigative article—it’s a discussion with an author teasing one aspect of her book. I assume the title was meant more as a description of the book than as a claim they were trying to fully substantiate within this particular discussion about the book.

This is the kind of comment you have to reply to if you downvote

Mine, not so much, but would be nice to know why four people so far have hit the disagree button

Mother Jones has about as much journalistic integrity as Salon… aka there is none

It’s historically been applied at the level of societies rather than individuals, and targeted at common traits seen as undesirable rather than at specific genetic defects. And it tends to be based on misconceptions about evolution—e.g., that an ideal population is one in which all members’ genotypes approach some hypothetical optimum, and any genetic diversity within a population is deleterious.

Racists like Musk love it because it's a way to reduce "unwanted" populations without saying it outright

Eugenics is basically selective breeding applied to humans to weed out undesirable traits like diseases or disabilities.
It sounds okay on paper but as history showed us, it is, more often than not, used to justify heinous shit. Especially when you leave it to humans to define "undesirable traits".
Nazis used it, but so did America, Japan, China, France and many many more.
And now, imagine tech bros from the Valley wanting to engineer the genome and deliver the "perfect" baby to some rich fucks. We're obviously not there yet, but it's only a matter of time if we let them.

Eugenics is a very real and racist policy.

Ethiopian women in Israel 'given contraceptive without consent'