With a fertility rate of 1.64 as of 2020, the US needs all the new babies they can get.
If your society requires population growth to not grind to a screeching halt, what you have is a pyramid scheme. Either people aren't working enough[1], they are working on useless things[2], or someone at the top is siphoning too much wealth for themselves[3].
[1] Not the problem in the US.
[2] Half of the problem in the US.
[3] The other half of the problem in the US.
Yes, that is exactly what we have. Our social security and Medicare systems are nearing insolvency because they are Ponzi schemes that rely on growth. Growth that didn’t happen. That pyramid is built on either increased taxes for the next generation or decreased benefits for the prior.
Most Americans’ net worth is predominantly composed of their house. Those same houses have had their values propped up by decades of poor financial policy (interest rates trending to zero) because it is politically infeasible that housing prices go down. That pyramid is built on the backs of future generations who are or will be unable to afford housing.
Equities and bonds are also a pyramid scheme, in the sense that the same financial policy has propped up asset values. The rise of passive investing, the surplus of cash, and financial policy have propped up asset values far beyond their natural equilibrium point, because it is politically infeasible that stocks go down. That pyramid is built on the lack of future returns coming generations will experience because the prices must eventually regress toward the mean.
Not to mention the massive debt bubble, whose interest is another pyramid scheme, wherein past and present generations have voted and continue to vote to saddle future generations with debt that they will not be able to pay.
At least here in the US, almost every major wealth creation or preservation system is a pyramid scheme where future generations are on the bottom, and the current generations are at various higher levels of the pyramid.
The civilization you belong to is effectively dying, and you're worried about whether you'll personally be comfortable as it all ends.
This has implications. Those who don't want it to die are best off severing whatever responsibility and connections they have to people like yourself. From their point of view, all resources are wasted on those who don't want to keep civilization alive. In a triage situation, such people won't get priority when it comes to being "fed, sheltered, and care for".
Your first counter-argument will probably be "well they're wrong". Which is irrelevant. They will continue to behave as if they're correct.
The same could be said about those people. They aren't aiming towards a steady state society, they are aiming towards tumor-like exponential growth, which will in the long-term, lead civilization to collapse.
The person who cut down the last tree on Easter Island, and all...
Civilization, and the state exists to serve people, not the other way around. There's a name for an ideology that reverses those priorities and obligations - and that name is fascism.
“The United States is home to the highest number of immigrants in the world. An estimated 50.6 million people in the United States—a bit more than 15% of the total population of 331.4 million—were born in a foreign country.”
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/immigrati...