re: Population growth in the US is becoming stagnant. Should we ban hormonal birth control?

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I still don’t understand how a declining population is a problem

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You need tax payers

And you need consumers

A declining population not only makes paying for the services the elderly consume impossible it also enforces demand destruction and kills the economy.

If you don't understand these things you should probably do some more learning. We all have much to learn but these are pretty basic things.

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A nd what happens ~10 years after that when the biggest generation in history starts retiring en masse/declining productivity with no historically gigantic generation coming up behind them to support them and the rest of society?

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The biggest thing people who parrot this talking point are missing is AI picking up much of the slack.

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It’s a selfish and empty life

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Because you say it is?

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The problem isn’t that the population is lower. The problem is that the population becomes OLDER. Older people can’t work and need younger people to take care of them.

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The problem isn't necessarily that the population is smaller. The real challenge is the ratio of producers to dependents.

Historically, societies have needed a growing working-age population because human labor was the primary source of economic output. As the population aged, more retirees depended on relatively fewer workers to support pensions, healthcare, and the broader economy.

But AI and robotics could fundamentally change that equation.

If a single worker can produce several times more economic value through AI assistance and automation, then we simply won't need as many workers to maintain or even increase economic output. The key variable becomes productivity per worker rather than the absolute number of workers.

I think about this when I visit my parents in assisted living. Many of the jobs I see today could look very different within the next decade. AI will likely handle much of the administrative work, monitor residents' health, coordinate medications, optimize staffing, and assist caregivers. Outside those facilities, we may see autonomous vehicles, AI managing routine finances and shopping, robots working farms and factories, and automated logistics delivering goods rapidly with minimal human labor.

Human work itself may also evolve. Rather than retiring completely at 65, people could remain economically productive much longer because AI reduces the physical and cognitive burden of many professions. A 70-year-old engineer, physician, or consultant might work remotely from home for ten hours a week, supported by AI systems that allow them to produce as much value as an entire team does today.

If that future materializes, the demographic conversation changes. Instead of assuming that every retiree requires a growing number of younger workers, we may find that fewer, more productive workers—and older adults remaining active in the workforce longer—are enough to support society.

In that scenario, stable or even modestly declining population growth could become economically sustainable. The challenge would no longer be maximizing the number of workers, but maximizing the productivity of each worker while keeping people healthy enough to contribute for more years.

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Should we ban hormonal birth control?

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only for white women

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I think the majority of birth rates from Americans are from white trash people and ghetto people

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Actually its from Mormons, Catholics, and Latinos
Worldwide Muslims have far and away the highest birth rate

Black birth rates are in decline

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Were also not allowing enough White European immigration to keep up with legal Asian immigration

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It's not a lack of allowing European immigration, but a lack of desire for Europeans to immigrate. They are in low cost of living countries that have large social programs, they have no incentive to leave for the US on a mass scale. Right or wrong, if it's all you have known then switching to a US lifestyle isn't that attractive, generally.

Conversely, the Big Tech oligarchy will never allow their pool of cheap labor to be cut off from Asia until AI is at a level the labor isn't needed anymore.

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Illegal saturation with its Birthright implications

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Unless there is incentives for middle class families to have more children, the best hope for population growth is to encourage migration from Latin American countries, but they are currently the boogeyman de jour. They mostly have lived through 70 years of failed socialism, generally socially conservative, Catholic or Christian as a whole, and generally hard working. Essentially they are what people want the Western Europeans to be.