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Universal Basic Happiness, Part 1
Last Weekend, Robin Hanson stirred things up by inquiring why the people concerned about income inequality aren’t worried about other forms of inequality:
Those 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. https://bit.ly/2HMKlyF
Phil and Stephen discuss: If Universal Basic Income becomes a thing, will Universal Basic Sex be next?
It 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.
Could universal basic sex be managed in such a way that it protected individual freedom and dignity?
Sex bots, anyone? We will come back to sexbots in a later podcast.
Meanwhile, here’s a much bigger inequality: happiness.
Some people are a lot happier than others. Some just seem to have happy dispositions. Doesn’t that transcend most other inequalities? Think about it:
There are poor people who are happy. There are rich people who are miserable. They are people who have a lot of sex who hate their lives. There are people who are completely celibate who love every minute of their lives.
Related: Why $50,000 May Be the (New) Happiness Tipping Point https://ti.me/2eMg09t So if happiness is the big inequality, how do we fix it?
We’ll explore further in part 2.
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Eternity Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 Images from Pixabay.com and other sources.