I really don’t think we have anything to worry about not having any people left. There’s still plenty of innate drive to reproduce, both biologically and intellectually (as in, educating far more people than the number of kids you could ever have).
> Immigrants built America.
These were masses building a new country, not integrating into an existing; they had a way lower living standard, a lot of them died. It did not go well for the existing society in America. The people forming the government were british rich aristocrats. And don't think these situations are comparable.
I also think you’d be surprised how little time to pay off would actually be needed. Give people a calm space and community (including their friends and family), and we will all flourish.
Instead of using a thought-terminating insult, think about why people veil their racism, and why they have it. Different races are intrinsically different and some of those differences are harmful to society. You're probably shocked hearing this but most people are too scared to say it because the group will punish them so we end up with people like you somehow actively oblivious to reality.
These are different things. Yes we are required to provide the resources needed for life to refugees as well as to the elderly. That doesn't automatically mean that this is a worthy investment. What dividends do you intend to get from a bedridden old person.
> Rhetoric otherwise is just veiled racism.
No, it's not, were did a talk about race? If anything, you could accuse me of egoism, nationalism and social darwinism. Dealing with other perspectives by shouting you are bad guy(tm) won't advance anyone.
But I did not say, that any culture will perform worse than another. I did say a person robbed from his culture, law and economic system, and displaced into another will struggle. Putting on rose tinted glasses will help neither, your society, the refugee nor the refugees society.
> I also think you’d be surprised how little time to pay off would actually be needed.
Sure, that's why the societies with the refugees all outperform their neighbor and are way more peaceful.
> Give people a calm space and community (including their friends and family), and we will all flourish.
Sure, but why should this take place in your country, just because you have a self-inflicted lack of young people? That is very much egoistic and unfair, in my opinion. Providing money for education aid to developing countries and then sending ministers there to openly headhunt the well educated for your country, doesn't seem too far from colonialism and slave trade to me.
If we can’t get our act together and help each other out while living within our planet’s means, what kind of life are we even offering to future generations?
> instead of pressuring people
This is somewhat orthogonal.
> people who don’t want to have kids
Some people also don't want to and don't pay taxes.