Brandon Gill

I get it.

Trust me.

All across the industrialized rich world, people just stopped having babies in the last couple of decades.

We're at replacement rate birth rates nowhere in the industrialized world except Mormons and Jewish populations in Israel and in some parts of the US.

Except for those two categories, every other industrialized nation has stopped having babies.

That is super weird.

We've stopped having sex.

Sex has collapsed demographically.

Premarital, extramarital, marital.

It is very weird, I don't have a phone on me, but that we carry around these super devices in our pockets that have distracted us from some of the most fundamental human activities and aspirations.

Having a baby is a bet on the future.

And almost everywhere in the world,

and the world is richer and richer and richer statistically than it's ever been.

People have decided, eh, actually babies are kind of an inconvenience.

Babies have always been an inconvenience.

And the most glorious thing you can do to enrich your family and to make a bet on the future.

How weird that we've stopped having sex, we've stopped making babies, we've decided that being distracted by a dopamine hit around Candy Crush might be a good way to spend your time.

Not if you're a full human.

Yeah, you know, I think this is so funny.

Temporary protected status, as its name implies, was originally designed to be just that, temporary.