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Majority of Japanese support government-run dating apps (www.asahi.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

Plot twist, it was never about increasing births but about generating data sets

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (9 children)

My rent costs me pretty much how much would it cost me to raise two kids. And wondering why people don't raise kids. Because life and rent became so expensive, it's literally impossible to rent and raise more than two kids on two average incomes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Based and true

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Old Japanese men in government positions cannot, and will not fix this.

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[–] [email protected] 193 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Honestly tho a dating site that's not incentivized to keep people on the dating site makes a lot of sense

[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 months ago

Right? Done properly and without profit motivating every decision it could be a good thing. I mean I'm sure someone will find a way to make it creepy and weird, but you never know.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago

Got to face reality that most people won't have more than 2-3 kids AND that's only if they feel economically secure and got enough free time to do it, ie live on 1 income.

Current economic regime is 69 hour work weeks while barely breaking even on the bills.

No way to tell why nobody can break replacement level 🤡

But hey we got government and tech bros who will help US!!!!

This bullshit remind me of the mental health workships at work... way to fucking miss the point "leadership"

[–] [email protected] 75 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I swear this is the plot to an anime/hentai.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Literally was a Rick & Morty episode. Kinda.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

www.pleasemakebabies.go.jp

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I'm disappointed that doesn't exist.

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[+] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The work environment is also toxic. I read that some large japanese companies have rooms where employees have to sit and do nothing if they want to get rid of them. Because firing them would mean admitting you where wrong to hire them and could not get them on board, so that is loss of face.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It’s not about losing face. It is the fact that seishain, or permanent employees are very hard to fire. The company needs to keep a record of the employee’s failures.

In addition, the company needs to implement and execute improvement plans. The results of those need to be reviewed. The next plan has to be implemented. And so on.

Only when they fail to show improvement a certain number of times (I don’t know exactly) can they be legally fired. You can’t just fire someone like in the U.S. style of at will employment. That would be a lawsuit waiting to happen.

So it is easier and cheaper to “persuade” the employee to resign.

However, this terrible behavior is considered to be power harassment, and all large companies now have ethics hotlines. Also, companies have to provide annual trainings on issues like this. So, I hope this practice is decreasing.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Don't need to go to Japan for that, it's a common tactic in the west too to get the employee to quit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Corporate "culture" around the world is different but at the end of the day it is always about punking somebody below you...