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1. janalsncm · 1790819453 · focus · HN ↗

   In principle this can be a lot better than regular dating apps.

   Tinder doesn’t know if they were successful or not. They just know you stopped opening the app. In fact they are incentivized not to make matches that lead to marriage, because then you will stop paying.

   The government knows whether you got married and stayed married, and given the social cost of divorce, they are pretty incentivized to keep people married.

   1. derangedHorse · 1790822474 · focus · HN ↗

      > given the social cost of divorce

      I think they're more concerned about their fertility rate and labor force. A 0.87 total fertility rate for 2025 [1] is pretty bad.

      [1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abc.net.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;2026-03-12&#x2F;singapore-low-fertility-rate-existential-challenge&#x2F;106397470" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abc.net.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;2026-03-12&#x2F;singapore-low-fertili...

      1. yutter4 · 1790822990 · focus · HN ↗

         Western governments don&#x27;t seem at all concerned about this, unfortunately. They no longer represent the people, they represent the economy. And the economy is far more interested in importing millions of unskilled adult migrants from developing countries who are immediately eligible for debt, rent, mortgages, and low-paying jobs to prop up the GDP, rather than a crying baby that will leech on public services for 18 years beforehand. Culture, stability, safety, happiness, long-term prosperity and survival be damned.

         1. roncesvalles · 1790841657 · focus · HN ↗

            &gt;importing millions of unskilled adult migrants

            There is no Western country importing unskilled immigrants.

            The &quot;yield&quot; from crying babies is not 100%. Some will die before their productive years, some will succumb to disabilities, addictions, delinquency, or simply choose not to study and work.

            Importing an immigrant cuts away all that &quot;shrinkage&quot;, at zero cost to the receiving country (their country of birth bore that cost). It&#x27;s such a good deal it&#x27;s a no brainer, basically a tree that grows money. Not to mention it&#x27;s immediate. Crying babies have a 18-22 year lag time.

            Also, government incentives to have children usually stimulates immigrants and poor people anyway, if your argument is purely ethnoracial. You may as well take the 23-year-old Indian or Algerian dude. There is very little the government can do to make a white couple in Connecticut have babies.

            1. andai · 1790853016 · focus · HN ↗

               &gt;There is no Western country importing unskilled immigrants.

               Well, there&#x27;s at least one getting ready to send them back.

               <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.restorebritain.org.uk&#x2F;pp_mass_deportations_legitimacy_legality_and_logistics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.restorebritain.org.uk&#x2F;pp_mass_deportations_legit...

               1. roncesvalles · 1790854702 · focus · HN ↗

                  Illegal immigrants don&#x27;t count, that&#x27;s a law enforcement issue. The counterexample to &quot;there is no country where murder is legal&quot; is not a link to murder stats.

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