Yes, that's true. There are other Government subsidies (e.g. increased payments to medicare providers) meant to offset the costs of operating in that environment. What I meant was that within these "permanent distortions" of the market, there are short-term observable trends around the time of the APF dividend (an annual payment) is distributed, e.g. I believe something like 30% of all sales in certain (rural) areas occur in the 30 days following distributions. My larger point was simply that 1) the APF is an important source of income for many cash-poor Alaskan families, 2) Alaskans generally seem to have faith in it's sustainability, 3) there's 30+ years of good data around distributions and economic activity, and 4) as such, it seems like both the best proxy we have for UBI and its potential effects.