I lament the demise of such a well-thought-out, workable plan that would absolutely have produced the desired results in meaningful numbers.
“You should marry the men you fled from in the first place, what could go wrong?”
If they planned to pay men in Tokyo to marry women in rural area, I would have signed up right away.
I don’t think it’s going to make a big difference but why not just keep it anyway?
Who knew $4000 wasn’t enough for women to change the biggest decision they make in their entire life?
Why struggle to keep these municipalities alive? Why not just let them naturally die out so that the country can be more centralized? The population is decreasing anyway so it’s not like we’re going to end up with some uncontrolled urban sprawl either
No Kyushu danji for the ladies
Free screenings of Only Yesterday would have been more cost effective.
Anything, and I mean *anything* but making the quality of life better for the people that live here simply *must* be the solution!
Pay people off, government dating apps, coupons for wagyu beef!
What’s that? Better salaries and ditch toxic work culture? Dame, dame!
It’s honestly so obvious how you encourage people to have children. Give them stable, meaningful, well-paying jobs that leave them with the right amount of free time. That’s it.
For most human beings who don’t find themselves uniquely hooked on the mastery of a particular vocation, having children becomes a really attractive thing to do to make life worth living. I never thought it would happen to me, but here I am in my late 30’s with a newborn just a few years after finding the first stable well-paying job that I have enjoyed in my life so far. With no other vocations that I have any particular interest in, other than spending time with friends, playing video games, and waxing political and philosophical on Reddit, it just emerged as the best thing I could do with my time and extra resources.
I say “that’s it” altogether far too lightly of course – I am exceptionally lucky and privileged. But there’s an elephant in the room to this anecdote that it seems most politicians the world over refuse to see is there.
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I lament the demise of such a well-thought-out, workable plan that would absolutely have produced the desired results in meaningful numbers.
“You should marry the men you fled from in the first place, what could go wrong?”
If they planned to pay men in Tokyo to marry women in rural area, I would have signed up right away.
I don’t think it’s going to make a big difference but why not just keep it anyway?
Who knew $4000 wasn’t enough for women to change the biggest decision they make in their entire life?
Why struggle to keep these municipalities alive? Why not just let them naturally die out so that the country can be more centralized? The population is decreasing anyway so it’s not like we’re going to end up with some uncontrolled urban sprawl either
No Kyushu danji for the ladies
Free screenings of Only Yesterday would have been more cost effective.
Anything, and I mean *anything* but making the quality of life better for the people that live here simply *must* be the solution!
Pay people off, government dating apps, coupons for wagyu beef!
What’s that? Better salaries and ditch toxic work culture? Dame, dame!
It’s honestly so obvious how you encourage people to have children. Give them stable, meaningful, well-paying jobs that leave them with the right amount of free time. That’s it.
For most human beings who don’t find themselves uniquely hooked on the mastery of a particular vocation, having children becomes a really attractive thing to do to make life worth living. I never thought it would happen to me, but here I am in my late 30’s with a newborn just a few years after finding the first stable well-paying job that I have enjoyed in my life so far. With no other vocations that I have any particular interest in, other than spending time with friends, playing video games, and waxing political and philosophical on Reddit, it just emerged as the best thing I could do with my time and extra resources.
I say “that’s it” altogether far too lightly of course – I am exceptionally lucky and privileged. But there’s an elephant in the room to this anecdote that it seems most politicians the world over refuse to see is there.