Either the West makes drastic cuts to welfare(excellent idea, good luck getting govs doing that), start reproducing(excellent idea, but is related to the welfare state being the daddy and weening people off it) or bring in immigrants(fking stupid idea).
Pick one.
A picture is worth a thousand deceits.
False dilemma. Population myth.
Choose one.
The USA cannot sustain it’s huge Government size on the current population. Unionist socialists want golden cadillac benefits to teach children and ‘care’ for the elderly. Benefits like cruise ships and early retirement, funny how they scam after children and the elderly, and rip them off.
Big Govt grabs 60 or 70% of the wealth, and wastes it on cruise ships and plain waste. It can run on a mere 2%.
All that lost productivity is stored in there.
Reduce Govt care, elderly wins.
Reduce Govt hospice, elderly wins.
Processed food has 10x productivity locked inside, corn to cattle, so much that farmers now grow destructive ethanol.
If the USA population rose to a Billion People, your Govt would just vaccum up all the gain.
That is an excellent visual but I think the situation is even worse than that. How many bureaucrats and welfare cheats are being supported by the honest workers in addition to the elderly?