Agree completely. 👍
Except for the arguable issue of our population eventually being overrun by the 3rd world over-populated
shit-hole invaders, reducing the US population is not a problem, its an improvement.
(No, don't kill anyone, just make the 135,000,000 invaders and their progeny leave.)
This assumes that the robots doing the work have to pay double or triple (or whatever is necessary) to
support those over 55 (who paid in all their working lives and) who were promised that social security
would provide enough to live above poverty in retirement after 66 years old.
For everyone under 55, pay their 'contributions' into a "Trump retirement account" and hire the best
available to invest it for them to provide for their "golden years."

That would have been sometime in the mid-60's if my brief research is right. And I agree, things seemed to be much more pleasant.

Had an interesting discussion with a health care provider a couple months back: How different life would be if everyone asked "What would Andy Griffith Do?" I know life was not perfect in those days, but it seems there was not the animosity that runs rampant now.

It's one of the reasons I like driving on the small-town sections of Route 66. People are helpful, friendly and polite.

What population is declining? It seems to me "first world" is declining while third world is increasing, especially third world living within the first world territories. First world robotics may be assisting first world decline while also assisting third world increase. It just seems first world is nurturing third world with a flood of free stuff while turning a blind eye to its own people. Just thinking out loud here with only demographic observations of Europe, North America, and Australia.

Thank you for saying what I’m thinking. Why is negative population growth a bad thing? Automation requires less workers. More folks can live in better first world conditions. I think the third world problems will continue until they expel the corruption, dictatorships and embrace open markets and capitalism. Africa has a huge amount of human capital but the above has prevented any significant change in their lives and economic growth.

As long as the robots have to pay into social security and medicare. ;^)
US was a much more pleasant place when the population was less than 200 million.