Musk's proposal does something structurally significant that most tech-figure commentary on AI labor avoids: it names a specific government mechanism rather than gesturing at adaptation. The commits him to a position where AI-driven unemployment is not a transition problem requiring retraining — it is a permanent structural shift requiring income replacement. That distinction matters for the policy conversation because retraining arguments preserve the existing employment paradigm; income-floor arguments concede it is gone. The labs that have resisted labor-protection language in government negotiations now have the world's most…