In normal markets where sellers are in competition, the usual expectation from supply&#x2F;demand interaction would be that an increase in resources available to the group pursuing a particular good or service would be to increase the quantity sold and the market clearing cost. (With knock-on effects of increasing market clearing price and quantity sold of competitively-delivered inputs to those goods, including labor.)<p>With goods supplied by monopolies, the increase in available resources would be expected just to increase the extractable monopoly rents, but that&#x27;s a problem with monopolies that applies to lots of situations, not a problem with basic income.