A basic income doesn&#x27;t necessitate increased consumption, only shifted consumption from the rich to the poor. If you think a basic income is going to have an adverse effect on savings&#x2F;investment rates, there are plenty of ways to bump this up (sovereign wealth funds for example).<p>But your comment is pretty clearly motivated by an ideological commitment to the rich having more and the poor having less, rather than some genuine concern with insufficient investment. Why not just be honest about it instead of hiding behind this ideological wordplay?<p>Labelling the freedom of choice of a low income worker to leave a job they hate and&#x2F;or work a bit less as &quot;deadweight loss&quot; is reveals a lot. I suppose you think the lack of ten year old children working in coal mines is deadweight loss too.