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Basic income should be an economic modifier much as the federal interest rates are. The higher inequality rises, the higher basic income, and taxes, should rise with it. Imagine a world where jobs start dropping away quickly, allowing production to go on without paying workers, killing off the middle class. With a ramping basic income you quickly get compensation for that imbalance that allows jobs to be created again before the tax ramps down when the economy has finished its adjusting in a healthy way. Or it doesn't adjust and the basic income becomes a part of society by default.