You misunderstood. When I say &quot;people want twice as much before working&quot;, I mean a marginal doubling. If I&#x27;m working for a marginal $10 doing unfun work because I need to feed myself, and I&#x27;m given basic income, I might say &quot;hey, I&#x27;m not willing to do that same work unless I get $20 an hour for it&quot;. I might prefer &quot;do nothing and collect BI&quot; to &quot;work for $10 and get BI&quot;.<p>&gt;It might even allow employers to pay them less, because the UBI would remove the need to have a minimum wage. So someone who was making $15K&#x2F;year full time at minimum wage who is now getting $12K&#x2F;year UBI may now have to accept $12K&#x2F;year in wages because the market for unskilled labor is highly competitive and $24K&#x2F;year in total income is highly preferable to $12K.<p>It&#x27;s not obvious which way it would go. I think my scenario above is plausible, but yours is as well.<p>But in your scenario, why wouldn&#x27;t the employer capture the entire difference, or a larger part of it? Even if they pay $16k, that&#x27;s still better than 12k. Or, maybe they&#x27;d work less hours.<p>I think that a more robust analysis than these kinds of handwaving arguments is needed. It&#x27;s not a simple question.