Inflation isn't that simple. Sure, if you print a huge wad of money and give it out to everyone (ie. increase the money supply) then you'll get inflation, but t

Inflation isn't that simple. Sure, if you print a huge wad of money and give it out to everyone (ie. increase the money supply) then you'll get inflation, but that's not generally how UBI proponents intend it to work. The other side of it is increasing taxes on the other end of the progressive spectrum to compensate, leaving the money supply (ideally) largely unchanged. Anyways, it'd still be better than quantitative easing, the current approach to keeping the economy running now that they can't lower reserve ratios or interest rates anymore, wherein (roughly) the government prints money to shove into the stock market so people who are already rich keep getting richer.