Dear forum,

I was wondering if the repugnant conclusion could be responded by an argument of the following form: 

Considering planet earth and a given happiness distribution of its citizens with total happiness h, there is simply not enough space or resources or whatsoever to let an arbitrary large number of people n live with an average amount of happiness epsilon, such that n * epsilon > h. At even larger scales, the observable universe is finite and thus for the same reason as above n does not need to exist.

What do you think of such an argument?

I am not sure, whether the nature of the repugnant conclusion is really affected by such an argument. Can you help me to understand?

Why isn't the destruction of the patriarchy considered a cause area in Effective Altruism? A search of the 80,000 Hours website yields only two results, both of which are podcast transcripts. It's not listed among the problems in their cause prioritization list. Has this issue not been investigated at all? If not, why?

Could political concerns be a factor? If so, doesn’t that raise questions, given that cause neutrality is a core principle of Effective Altruism? What other reasons might explain its absence?