Would basic income still register in the collective mindset as “help”? Because if it registers as “free money” I fear prices will go up. I understand that since BI correlates with income tax no inflation should be created. Yet people have particular ways to understand how welfare happens. In a poor community, when you know for sure that everyone there can afford some stuff, wouldn’t that be an incentive to collectively raise prices, just because you know there is definitely new money to be spent.