Regierung in Tokio startet Dating-App zur Steigerung der Geburtenrate

https://japantoday.com/category/national/tokyo-govt-to-launch-dating-app-to-boost-birth-rate

42 comments

  1. crazy stat of the day …

    > Last year Japan recorded more than twice as many deaths as new babies.

  2. It is almost like getting their citizens to bump uglies isn’t the problem they should be trying to figure out.

  3. “We see everything you’re doing, but keep doing it.”

  4. …instead of fixing the actual issues driving the trend. Seems on brand

  5. Out-Of-Touch Politicians: Let’s just make an ad campaign on.. MTV? .. telling the youth “It’s cool to have babies” or make a viral post to myspace and facebook.. or make an app or tok tik?

  6. Performative policy because actual policy changes take longer than an election cycle?

    Or the news cycle, for that matter.

  7. Imo there should be a social network, a dating app and a video platform from the government. Those are basic needs nowadays.

  8. East Asian countries doing everything humanly possible to not give their citizens a healthy work-life-balance.

    My half brother in Taiwan works like 60 hours per week as a programmer and for some reason managed to have two children.

  11. Omg what if the global population stops increasing exponentially? How can we sell products to more and more people? Whata next? Create some different way of sustaining en economy??

  12. Maybe fix the cost of living issue? Nah we made a robot that sucks your dick so you can go gentle into that good night. 

  13. 🤣🤣🤣

    I laugh to not cry …

    … the situation is really dire all around the world 😥

    Only poor people do children in this period.

  14. They’ll do everything except the two things that work: giving people more money (enough to afford a home for a family) and more time to spend with the family.

  15. Better work life balance – No.

    Abolish discrimination of pregnant women/mothers who are working – No.

    Easier access to day care – No.

    Maternity/Paternity leave – No.

    New app coded like it’s 1995 – YES!!!!

  16. It would be interesting to see what an app would look like if it was actually designed to get people together instead of just extracting money from them forever. I mean I don’t expect the Tokyo government to do that well but yeah.

  18. THIS IS NOT THE PROBLEM.

    Come on Japan. Introduce some stricter work time regulations. There are so many young people that want to fuck and get married and have kids, meeting each other isn’t the problem, it’s the fact they’re so damn tired they don’t even have the energy to say hello to people outside work! Ahhhhh!!

    I hate using Europe as an example but damn if they don’t have the right idea. Make disconnecting legal. Introduce labor laws where if you work more than what is on paper overtime and they have to pay you at least a time and a half. Obligatory maternity leave where they better be prepared to prove they’re not hiring based on your gender. So on and so forth.

  19. That actually makes good sense. Imagine how well those could work if these apps focussed on marching people instead of making money off people staying on there.

  21. the work environment and weak currency? no lets launch a dating app

  22. Build more robots! Just don’t make them sexy robots.

  23. How stupid can a government be and so disconnected from reality

  24. This just in, Japan employs Smokey from F is for Family to restock condom machines.

  25. How about not working them to death under capitalism to give them time to consider having sex?

  27. Oh no. If those birth rates don’t go up, the next generation might have to live through rising wages and falling rents.

  28. Stop fucking working 80 hour weeks and that might just fix the issue. Like holy shit why is it so hard for the Japanese government to implement a limit of 40-50 hours weekly???

  29. Japan needs to change its entire toxic work culture if they wish for people to even have the ability to go dating in the first place.

  30. Do literally anything except put young people in a socioeconomic position where they feel comfortable starting families…

  34. The world is burning straight up in a blaze or fire and this is their brilliant solution.

  35. As a fella who’s bird doesn’t put out , I feel I could be useful for a change maybe

  36. Literally do everything else but:

    Allow immigration

    Fix the attitude of “the nail that stands out get spounded down”

  37. I’m on the west coast… Looks like I should learn some Japanese

  38. Everyone saying it’s related to work culture is wrong. Countries with very relaxed labor have similar birth rates issues. 

    Ultimately, young women don’t want to get married. Married women have a birth rate high enough to sustain the population, but the marriage rate is half of what it used to be. 

    How do we convince young women (under 30, so they can have multiple children) that getting married is important when a large percent don’t even date? 

    Ultimately, globally, it’s a cultural issue. Birth control has enabled an extraordinary amount of freedom to individuals to have the life they want without having to commit to having a family. Religious societies that ban or discourage birth control are the only groups growing currently. 

  39. How about Japanese gov pays me ship me over, I’ll do my part lol.

  40. TIL Japan’s low birthrate is due to a lack of dating apps, and not because of cost of living or work/life balance. Huh.

  41. Besides the obvious privacy concerns, I think I’d take a government run dating app over a company. Companies are incentivized to NOT match you with people so you stay longer and give them money out of desperation with boosts and stuff. These 1st world governments have MUCH more incentive to actually match you with someone you’ll click with so well, that maybe, just maybe(ohh boy!) they’ll decide to have kids.

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