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Merging my favorite Gilbert and Sullivan musical with economics... It could only be better if they picked one of my favorite songs.

“Men Are Happy - Women Are Not”
By Prof. Ray C. Fair

(Sung to: “See How the Fates Their Gifts Allot,” by Gilbert and Sullivan.)

See how the Fates their gifts allot,
For men are happy - women are not.
Yet she is worthy, I can see,
Of more prosperity than he!
Is she more worthy?
All can see
She’s worth a great deal more than he.
Yet he is happy!
Oh, so happy!
Laughing, Ha! Ha!
Chaffing, Ha! Ha!
Nectar quaffing, Ha! Ha! Ha!
Ever joyous, ever free,
Happy, undeserving he!
If I were Fortune (which I’m not)
Women should enjoy men’s happy lot,
And men should labor I decree,
That is, assuming I am she.
But should men labor?
That should be.
(Of course, assuming I am she.)
She should be happy!
Oh, so happy!
Laughing, Ha! Ha!
Chaffing, Ha! Ha!
Nectar quaffing, Ha! Ha! Ha!
But condemned to work we see,
Wretched meritorious she.