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Universal Basic Happiness, Part 1\n\nLast Weekend, Robin Hanson stirred things up by inquiring why the people concerned about income inequality aren\u2019t worried about other forms of inequality:\n\nThose w/ less access to sex plausibly suffer similarly to those with low income, & might similarly hope to organize to lobby for redistribution along this axis. Strikingly, I see little overlap between those concerned about income & sex inequality.\xa0\n\nhttps://bit.ly/2HMKlyF\n\nPhil and Stephen discuss: If Universal Basic Income becomes a thing, will Universal Basic Sex be next?\n\nIt would be a difficult solution to implement. Some of the hysterical reactions have been that Robin is calling for rape and/or sexual slavery to cure the sex inequality.\xa0\n\nCould universal basic sex be managed in such a way that it protected individual freedom and dignity?\n\nSex bots, anyone?\xa0 We will come back to sexbots in a later podcast.\n\nMeanwhile, here\u2019s a much bigger inequality: happiness.\n\nSome people are a lot happier than others. Some just seem to have happy dispositions. Doesn\u2019t that transcend most other inequalities? Think about it:\n\nThere are poor people who are happy.\n\nThere are rich people who are miserable.\n\nThey are people who have a lot of sex who hate their lives.\n\nThere are people who are completely celibate who love every minute of their lives.\n\nRelated: Why $50,000 May Be the (New) Happiness Tipping Point\n\nhttps://ti.me/2eMg09t\n\n\xa0\n\nSo if happiness is the big inequality, how do we fix it?\n\nWe\u2019ll explore further in part 2.\n\nWT 433-746\n\nEternity Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\n\nImages from Pixabay.com and other sources.