How can you be happy when there's so much suffering in the world?

[Phoenix]

Unconditional income is already sort of a thing here in Australia with easily accessible government welfare which is a system that has undeniably caused a lot of harm by perpetuating and further enabling unemployment and general degeneracy.

'Undeniably' huh.

Perhaps you would like to explain, after I'm sure is you're own extensive research on the subject. Why countries such as Norway, Sweden, which have very generous welfare, scores better on measures of societal health than the less generous countries where there is high inequality, such as the USA, the UK, Australia, Portugal etc.

These measures of societal health are as follows: Trust. Women's status. Illegal drug use. Infant deaths. Obesity. Teenage pregnancy. Prisoners as percentage of population, and the combined index of health and social problems.

Another country that scores well on these measures is Japan. Japan has a high level of equality because of higher wages. The point is that how the equality is achieved doesn't matter, it is the fact that it is there.

Perhaps your views are based simply on your own prejudices and aren't a reflection of reality... Fang.