Productivity has increased by 60% since 1979, while worker compensation has crawled forward at 18%. This widening chasm wasn’t an accident; it was the goal of a corporate architecture designed to privatize gains and socialize risk. Now, as AI—a machine built on the collective intellectual output of millions—enters the extraction layer, the social contract isn’t just fraying; it’s being shredded. The case for Universal Basic Income is no longer a radical theory; it is the only logical response to