Taxes people the answer is taxes. Drop the income tax paid when you are married with two kids. Make employers give more time off for people with kids. Basically if you financially incentivize it you will get it.
I’ve read they already offer rather steep tax incentives. I think what they actually need are higher wages, so one of the parents wouldn’t have to work for a few years, or at all. And that’s easier said than done, especially with their current economy
At least the Tokyo government has the right incentives. Match Group is the monopoly in this space and their incentive is to keep you on their platform viewing ads and paying fees. This of course is the exact opposite of what you'd do if you found a partner, got married and had kids.
Match Group is the anti-fertility company, they need competition. The Tokyo government is a strange place for it to come from but better than nothing.
I'm skeptical of that. Most western Europe countries have similarly low birth rates to Japan despite having some of the lowest working hours in the world.
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Only competing with the right number of zeros in the incentive will fix this.
It certainly seems that easy from layman perspective, but reality is way more complex.
Also the work ethic / work life balance in Japan is really screwed up. I think those are more likely reasons.
Match Group is the anti-fertility company, they need competition. The Tokyo government is a strange place for it to come from but better than nothing.
There are already "IT" companies that will just outsource development to india while pocketing huge margin.