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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Vampire@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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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"

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[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

All birth rate worries are the 14 words in a trenchcoat

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

The world population is going up. It is always going up, it has never gone down in recorded history.

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago

I think it might've during the mongol invasions and the plagues that happened at the same time, but it's hard to measure things like that before people were keeping an accurate census.

[-] DornerFangirl@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Where is my state assigned gf, I thought this was what communism would bring

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Anything to avoid improving material conditions so that a one job household can raise a kid.

[-] regul@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Did you hear? We could have an app instead! Fuck material conditions, I want the app!

[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank you for the reminder that I need to get these tubes tied.

Also, they could just make existing less miserable.

[-] regul@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

You're still not providing any incentive to have kids. Plenty of people are dating and fucking and getting married.

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Nobody in Gen Z has ever had sex

[-] learn3code@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

We're going to find out that Tinder was funded by the pentagon aren't we?

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago
[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Kinder! Kitche! Kurche!

-The average liberal in the west in about 10-20 years.

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Tinder, Kirche, Kuche

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