Sure, that obviously works as long as we model the economy as a static entity that never changes in response to stimuli, in which we model &quot;dollars&quot; as being able to buy an infinite amount of goods and services at the pre-change levels.<p>But that&#x27;s not how the economy works. The rich can provide &quot;dollars&quot;, but we can&#x27;t raid them for man-hours of child-care, or care for the elderly, nor can they provide professional health care. They&#x27;ve got the same 168 hours a week the rest of us do.<p>This doesn&#x27;t say that &quot;BI can&#x27;t work&quot;... it <i>does</i> say you can&#x27;t model the economy statically, use the prices and valuations of today, and assume that <i>rewiring the fundamental economic fabric of society</i> will result in no changes. You can&#x27;t do that at this scale.