An honest attempt at understanding the universal income question in America.

I don’t know how many UBI questions I’ve seen in the last week. What I haven’t seen is anybody actually try to figure it out using the money that is currently in the economy. I'm not sure it's even well defined. Everybody just “knows” what it is, and a lot of people think it’s coming because the tech bros keep abstractly dangling it in front of our faces. This might answer why we haven't seen anyone actually produce anything tangible. It would require a magician and last I checked, the guys we call magicians are really, just good illusionists. That's what UBI looks like to me with actual numbers behind it, an illusion. So I tried. I’m not an economist. I pulled together every piece I could find that’s actually worked somewhere: Alaska’s oil dividend, Norway’s fund, Mexico’s and France’s profit sharing, Canada’s carbon rebate. Then I had AI run it on real company numbers, five years of actual data and then thirty years out. It went through four rounds of checking across Claude Opus 5.5, GPT Astra 6.0, Gemini Argon 4 and Muse Wonder, and each one caught mistakes the others missed. The idea was simple: everybody owns a piece of everybody’s robot. The public slowly gets a quarter of th