<i>&quot;BI can&#x27;t be static, and will have to be tied to the affordability of basic necessities like housing and transportation. As prices rise, so must BI, or it&#x27;s not BI.&quot;</i><p>I could not disagree more.<p>(Or if you want to nitpick definitions and insist that you&#x27;ve defined BI the one true way, then we can be pedantic and say I strongly oppose BI and strongly support a system that is very nearly BI but for this difference...)<p>I believe that a basic income at an appropriate level will, over time, increase productivity.  But I also believe that the result of a basic income higher than the economy can support is a high level of inflation.  If we don&#x27;t raise BI in response, that&#x27;s naturally self-correcting.  I don&#x27;t want to remove that safeguard.<p>Increasing it at (or slightly faster than) <i>targeted</i> inflation sounds advisable.  We should not increase it based on predicted or observed inflation.