Because of the fact that I happen to live in a place of my choosing for many decades, and that place happens to have oil, and that oil happens to fund all of the good things about the place where I live, and because past statemen were wise enough to create the permanent fund so that the place where I live will have a way to supporting itself well into the future when the oil is depleted, I'm fortunately enough to get a bonus called the PFD.  Any ownership I might have is incidential to the fact that I happen to live here. Found money really. As an individual, I really have no reason to receive the money.