I'm skeptical your last point. UBI is becoming a hotter topic, at least in the anglosphere. Hell, even the "evil overlords" of AI (who themselves are relatively powerless to stop a sufficiently intelligent AI from doing away with them) are interested in UBI. Money matters.

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/10p8unc/sam_altman_on_how_to_pay_for_ubi/

https://analyticsindiamag.com/path-to-ai-utopia-openai-founder-sam-altman-chalks-out-a-wealth-for-all-plan/

I know a two people named Rigel. Neither of them are likely to be your son, but it’s a cool name nonetheless.