A new report on a basic income scheme launched in Iran
Maybe a dumb question, but I have always wondered this.<p>Won&#x27;t UBI just shift the poverty line to a value above whatever it is now(0 maybe), without changing the income inequality&#x2F;wealth difference. In a hyper-simplistic hypothetical scenario, if it&#x27;s assumed that a person is poor if he has $0, with UBI, he&#x27;ll have $X&#x2F;month, making him above the poverty line. But now the entire country, rich and poor, have at least $X&#x2F;month, which might translate to an increase in cost of all goods&#x2F;services by $X, rendering the poor as poor and rich as rich.