State-run matchmaking may not be far off
State-run matchmaking may not be far off
Tagged: stray thought post
If a politician said it now they'd be mocked. But it won't be long.
Low birth rates are a problem all over the world (not just a few European countries) and countries are going to have to deal with the demographic bomb. Countries need babies.
A government could spend $20 million developing an app to match people and suggest they go on dates. They could be matched based on age, education level, and whatever turns out to correlate with good marriages – all that data stuff.
Wouldn't have to be an app. Could be festivals. Imagine a small group of compatible people are invited to the same place at the same time (paintballing, restaurant). The government matchmaking dept does the invites; the restaurant works gives a special rate for being part of the scheme.
Private companies don't have the same incentive to do this. But states need stable family units to be created, and it's not happening organically, not enough, it needs a nudge.
Like I say, this proposal would be mocked in any policy proposal, but "why are you booing me I'm right"
All birth rate worries are the 14 words in a trenchcoat
Yep, climate migration is sure to raise populations of Global North countries anyway. They don't need babies, they need workers. To want more babies from citizens (especially white citizens) is just a function to maintain the racial stratification of the working class.
People got this idea in the 1990s that fertility is a global north problem and then never updated their worldview
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependencies_by_total_fertility_rate
China 1.2
Jamaica, Thailand 1.3
Mauritius 1.4
Cuba 1.5
Where is my state assigned gf, I thought this was what communism would bring
this has already been happening:
2023: State-sponsored matchmaking app launched in China
2022: Jacobin: Tinder Wants Money. We Want Love. The Solution: Socialize Dating Apps. (and a freedom-loving blogger offers to become celibate if this happens...)
2021: A Chinese city is creating a government-sponsored 'Tinder'
2017: Government-run dating service is Taiwan’s solution to aging society
2016: The Japanese government set up speed-dating events to help with its ‘demographic time bomb’
2009: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched a dating advice site with a forum which looks like it might have been used for some matchmaking: twoofus.org
Anything to avoid improving material conditions so that a one job household can raise a kid.
Did you hear? We could have an app instead! Fuck material conditions, I want the app!
Thank you for the reminder that I need to get these tubes tied.
Also, they could just make existing less miserable.
You're still not providing any incentive to have kids. Plenty of people are dating and fucking and getting married.
Nobody in Gen Z has ever had sex
We're going to find out that Tinder was funded by the pentagon aren't we?
Kinder! Kitche! Kurche!
-The average liberal in the west in about 10-20 years.
Tinder, Kirche, Kuche