I heard it tries to compensate for the expensiveness of living in Alaska - and fails.

The real source of “economic equality” is a ready supply of jobs for blue collar workers - oil, fishing, tourism, etc.

And the fact poor people leave, and don’t come in the first place.

I’ve heard similar things about Sweden: social welfare to avoid massive deaths by ice.

Petrostates are well funded. Saudi Arabia also buys off its native population.

Gruber shilling for the AI industry is embarrassing.