Tokyo's Government Is Building Its Own Dating App to Combat Falling Birthrates
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#2This might be a case where government has better incentives to get it right than the private sector. Although obviously there are huge potential pitfalls as well
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#3Nothing sexier than the government telling you what to do. Maybe they should focus on helping people work less, so they have more time to… get bored, and find someone.
Re: Tokyo's Government Is Building Its Own Dating App to Combat Falling Birthrates
#4Why would anyone want to have kids today? Most couples in the western world can barely support themselves while getting into home ownership, let alone trying to support multiple kids and put them through college while saving for retirement. The amount of capacity left in life for good child rearing is minimal. Add to that the fact that it's looking increasingly unlikely that there'll be jobs for their children anyway given the way AI is going, and even if there were jobs, previous generations are leaving them a burning hellscape full of toxic forever chemicals and microplastics that the kids will need to clean up, and a surveillance advertising driven economy that's increasingly difficult to escape. Toxic social media driving toxic expectations etc. It just seems cruel bringing kids into a world like that.
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#5Create more social clubs, promote hobbies etc. and ban phone use (some comedy clubs have you leave your phone at the door).
Or don’t. Have everyone upload every intimate detail into a government database. SMFH.
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#6Why would anyone want to have kids today? Most couples in the western world can barely support themselves while getting into home ownership, let alone trying to support multiple kids and put them through college while saving for retirement. The amount of capacity left in life for good child rearing is minimal. Add to that the fact that it's looking increasingly unlikely that there'll be jobs for their children anyway…
> it's looking increasingly unlikely that there'll be jobs for their children anyway given the way AI is going
Unless there's a robot revolution, there will be jobs. AI is not going to farm, provide elder care, or do maintenance.
And that's assuming we get to AGI, and not get stuck on this LLM plateau.
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#7Why would anyone want to have kids today? Most couples in the western world can barely support themselves while getting into home ownership, let alone trying to support multiple kids and put them through college while saving for retirement. The amount of capacity left in life for good child rearing is minimal. Add to that the fact that it's looking increasingly unlikely that there'll be jobs for their children anyway…
Add to that our increasingly lonely lives and fraying communities mean much less of a support network. Parenting is also exhausting now that “go outside and play, come back for dinner” is impractical (for various reasons good or bad).
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#8On the other hand a non-profit dating app could really change the landscape as all others are bought up by match Co and are all designed for profit not matching
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#9Why would anyone want to have kids today? Most couples in the western world can barely support themselves while getting into home ownership, let alone trying to support multiple kids and put them through college while saving for retirement. The amount of capacity left in life for good child rearing is minimal. Add to that the fact that it's looking increasingly unlikely that there'll be jobs for their children anyway…
People are wealthier and healthier today than almost any other point in history.
Better times than now are a blip in the grand scheme of things.
We have a huge number of social ills that contribute towards peoples reasons for not wanting children, but wealth and physical health are not among them.
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#10Maybe a public service dating app makes sense. The alignment of incentives are all wrong for private dating apps. They obviously lose when you find someone and pair up so they're incentivised not to find a match.