The reason that folks on HN are so in favor of UBI is that  large numbers of us are employed as software engineers. We automate things that were previously done by humans. We make our money by destroying jobs. From a gods-eye perspective, this is actually a good thing, as it brings down the costs of serving peoples&#x27; needs. From the perspective of someone who loses their job, it sucks because that person now has no way to feed themselves. So, we want to get around that by being able to say to someone: &quot;Here is a free $700&#x2F;month. Move to rural Maine and spend 6 months learning to code and eating food delivered by the driverless truck which stole your job. Then join us in automating more people&#x27;s jobs away.&quot;<p>Why not Universal Basic Sex? Very few people think that sex is a basic right or think that the existence of sexually frustrated folks indicates a flaw on the part of society. Most people don&#x27;t put sex and food&#x2F;shelter&#x2F;medicine&#x2F;etc in the same categories. Also, HN readers aren&#x27;t doing things to make sex harder to find, so we feel no responsibility for people&#x27;s sexual frustration. Also, we can&#x27;t really automate the production of sex. If someone wants to seriously argue that we should give everyone a free Autoblow 2...well I would be interested in reading that argument.