Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back

Research shows remote work accounts for roughly 291,000 additional U.S. births per year, yet Silicon Valley figures who brand themselves 'pronatalists'—including Musk and Andreessen—spent two years dismantling workplace flexibility while pouring nearly a billion dollars into elite fertility technology. The 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis forced Asian governments to mandate remote work for fuel conservation, inadvertently reviving the very arrangement corporate America had just buried.