I kind of agree, I do think open immigration policies are admirable, but striving for a billion, seems far-fetched. We definitely shouldn't encourage more child

I kind of agree, I do think open immigration policies are admirable, but striving for a billion, seems far-fetched. We definitely shouldn't encourage more children, we shouldn't hinder people from having them who want them, but we shouldn't reward it, that just creates shitty parents who just had kids for the monetary gain they thought they'd get out of it. However, crises are on the forefront with global warming, covid, depression, and who knows what else over the next 20 years. The only way something like this would work is if we also could manage to bring all the manufacturing back to America, and by some miracle it wasn't 90% automated. Seems to me though the more people your country has, the more are going to die when the water wars/droughts begin next 20 years or so. I'm in Utah, and as you said resources are sparse here. My town almost completely ran out of water this year and had to fine people for watering lawns. tldr: I'm a leftist socialist, pro-open borders person, but I think we need to focus more on shoring up our nation, country, social programs, and supporting the people we do have and get through covid/depression before we worry about tripling our population. Cause we need to make sure we have the resources to support that esp out west. That said I'm for open borders, along w/ a VAT that would be higher for non-citizens. Let people come/work/live but subsidize the rest of us for the privilege.