I mean, a dating app explicitly for people that want kids is a pretty good idea to boost population.

But the reason populations are shrinking everywhere, is the economy sucks if you're not rich and kids are expensive.

Governments and corporations want more kids, because it will keep labor prices low. With a smaller population there's a smaller pool of labor, and wages get competitive.

If wages were higher, more people would have kids.

That's the real fix. Not subsidizing with tax dollars to encourage kids.

Here's how you fix it.

Cap a workers real hours to 25 /week. Continue to pay them exactly what they are paid now.

Suddenly, they have free time, feel like life is worth living and having a family becomes realistic.

You can see this pattern in wildlife. When resources are scarce and every day is stressful, no babies or few that survive. I wonder why 😨

I realize that a lot of governments planned for population growth as part of their economic strategy for the future and for social welfare programs for the aging. They need to start rethinking things (and acknowledge a stalled or shrinking population is a good thing for the planet.) The economy portion can be remedied by just having the obscenely wealthy pay their fair share of taxes.

> wants population growth
> strongly opposes immigration

It's baked in the culture.

I have Japanese friends that don't want kids because their parents specifically told them if you pop them out the mom alone needs to care for the kid. Most parents will straight up refuse to help with watching grandkids.

I went to Japan and the people there literally mean mug you because my kid was having a hard time with jet lag. I'm annoying them because my kid was crying. Who wants this kind of pressure?

Why? To put your most beloved ones inside the meat machine? To be the fuel for the abusive and unfair social system? Why the fuck people would like to do that? Societies, families are globally DESTROYED after so many decades of constant abuse and pressure .

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Japan’s fertility rate, which has seen a precipitous fall for many years, has reached another record low as the government ramps up efforts to encourage young people to get married and start families — even launching its own dating app.

But in Japan, the fertility rate has been well below that stable marker of 2.1 for half a century, experts say – it fell below that level after the 1973 global oil crisis pushed economies into recession, and never recovered.

Even if Japan were to boost its fertility rate tomorrow, its population will keep falling until the skewed ratio of young people to older adults balances out.

It has launched initiatives such as expanding child care facilities, offering housing subsidies to parents, and in some towns, even paying couples to have children.

In the capital Tokyo, local officials are trying a new tack: launching a government-run dating app, which is in early testing phases and will be fully operational later this year.

The app even caught the eye of billionaire Elon Musk, who wrote on X, formerly Twitter: “I’m glad the government of Japan recognizes the importance of this matter.

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