It's absolutely absurd to try to assert that overpopulation is the root problem with a straight face when you're dealing with a system with such radical inequality.

Yes, piling more people into the box of fighting for a single-digit percent of a single-digit percent of the wealth in the US is rarely great for anyone, but the root problem is not the people being added but the minuscule scraps they're forced to fight for while the rich get richer.

Barring outliers like NYC, the US is centuries away from even population density _parity_ relative to most of the rest of the world.