Good post! i'm watching the podcast now. Got me thinking about an argument/ criticism against UBI: "If people have more money in their hands then rents and whatnot will just increase and thus UBI solves nothing." That is not my criticism, but a criticism that i have heard and cannot as yet answer in a thoughtful way. Several questions break the criticism down into intellectually manageable pieces:

1. Did average prices rise when Alaska began giving citizens oil dividends? If so, did the increase exactly correspond with the income increase, or was it less, or more than the income increase?

2. Are there historical examples of national, or state/provence, wide dividends being given that did not result in average price increases?

3. If in some cases average prices increase, and in others they do not increase, what are the varied factors that determine the difference?

4. If average prices always increase when average incomes increase through national dividends what possible ways are their of preventing that?

Any systematic thought or factual knowledge out there on this topic?