So obviously, America needs more immigrants, not fewer — immigrants completely power our elder care industry, providers are already really struggling to find the workers they need, and Elon’s robots won’t be able to replace them.

(To help you wrap your head around this silver tsunami today: in 1850, only around 2% of the U.S. population was over age 65.)

This is the largest explosion of retirement-age Americans in history. By 2030, demographers project that folks over age 65 will be nearly 1/4th of the U.S. population.

(When’s the last time you read a book? Or had a long screen-less conversation with someone? Or just raw-dogged it for an extended period?)

Stars are basically just the instant after-effects of the Big Bang (which happened only 13.7 billion years ago): like a one-second flash of brightness before the universe settles into utter darkness without stars, leading to the long eventual heat death of the universe (in around 1.7×10^106 years).

For perspective, this expanse of time is like the universe starting with only 1 second of stars and then a billion billion billion billion billion billion billion years of just black holes.