Some people are convinced that prosperity requires a growing population — even in the US.

We can't afford a growing populartion in the US. It uses too much resources already. I'd say that survival, in the long term, requires a gradually shrinking US population. People in the US consume so much resources that a decrease in the US population is crucial for the world as a whole.

A "young population" is a harbinger of disaster.

We can enable ordinary Americans to prosper and cut down the resources we use, if only we could put an end to plutocracy that demands ever more billions for each billionaire.

We have plutocracy because the billionaire plutocrats have purchased laws (and judges) that assure them the power to buy more laws and court decisions.