Honestly tho a dating site that's not incentivized to keep people on the dating site makes a lot of sense
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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.
I would legit use it. For-profit dating sites suck
The point of for profit dating apps isn’t to find you a date. It’s to have you engage with the service for as long as possible so they can make money off you.
If you find a long term relationship, they lose a customer.
Exactly... Now people use this template logic and apply to other shit in your life ;)
Exactly why big toilet always wants me to keep shitting.
One of the few ol' relaibles tbh
That’s how they get ya.
A man got to shit.
That’s what big toilet wants you to believe.
I swear this is the plot to an anime/hentai.
Not "an". Plural.
Your efforts would be more sincere if you used complete sentences.
"The Time I Was Forced By The Government Into A Relationship With My Tsundere High-School Sweetheart"
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"Please start fucking more" - Japanese govt to Japanese people
But also work 16 hours a day and then go drinking afterwards.
Don't be a bigot... That's ~~japaneese~~ corporate culture.
Why do you hate other peoples way of life?
In some ways I can see this being potentially problematic, however...
For-profit dating apps (i.e. all dating apps) are shit.
Not only do they aggressively restrict a lot of basic features behind shockingly expensive paywalls, but they also mess around with the recommendation algorithm to make you feel like you feel like you have to get the premium tier in order to even be seen sometimes.
Plus they're literally incentivised to keep you on the app - not match you up with someone permanently. And once you've proven you're someone who's willing to pay, they really won't want to let you go.
A publicly-owned dating app shouldn't have these issues. Japan is incentivised to make good matches - they want to boost birthrates and curb the loneliness pandemic they're experiencing.
I just hope Japan is a country that takes privacy and security seriously.
E: btw I mean publicly owned as in owned by the Japanese public, not as in publicly traded.
A publicly-owned dating app shouldn’t have these issues.
If someone's job inside that company, even publicly owned, depends on the amount of users, they are incentivized to do all the same things. And publicly-owned companies too try to be kinda profitable sometimes. There's also corruption.
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I just hope Japan is a country that takes privacy and security seriously.
Governments don't.
Governments are incentivized to match people to combat declining birth rates. Lower birth rates means fewer productive people to support an aging population. It’s also loss in taxes.
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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"
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.
I can afford kids, but fuck making them live through this climate collapse we've created. I'll adopt if I really want a kid.
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Based and true
I'm disappointed that doesn't exist.
Old Japanese men in government positions cannot, and will not fix this.
Plot twist, it was never about increasing births but about generating data sets
Yes finally people get it.
It's the lesser of two evils vs. for-profit dating apps.
this can be a good thing... for japan (here in orbanistan it would be just another govermental scam, public money sewer :D ). I think the non free dating apps should be handled as scam, by the laws too, because those are really scams.
I didn't know there *were government-run dating apps. Something I can research about. But this is coming from a u.s perspective. So in other countries, this might be common knowledge within their territory I understand that.
they want people to procreate
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