What would Zera Yacob say about funding UBI without destroying the economy?

Yacob was suspicious of false binaries—the idea that we must choose between survival and prosperity. He'd start by asking a harder question: What economy are we protecting? One that works for whom? His insight matters here. Funding UBI isn't magic; it requires honest accounting. Land value tax—the increase in land worth from community investment, not landlord effort—is a natural source. Carbon tax on extraction that damages commons. Reduced bureaucracy spending on means-testing and enforcement. Progressive wealth tax on concentration that stifles reason and choice for most people. The economic fear isn't unfounded, but it's often misdirected. Hyperinflation happens when you print money divorced from real value. UBI funded through reallocation—taking from concentrated wealth and returning it to circulation—is different. It can actually stimulate local economies because poor and working people spend immediately. Yacob believed in rational scrutiny of consequences. So do the math. Model it. Test pilots. Don't implement blindly, but don't reject it from fear either. The real economic danger: doing nothing while inequality crushes the purchasing power of most people. That destabilizes everything.