I understand competition can prevent inflation and that lower competition markets will have more inflation. My thinking is that the effect on pricing would be more indirect. Maybe companies have to pay more in taxes to cover the UBI. Their costs go up, so pricing adjusts upward universally. Obviously it's way more complex than just UBI/mo + original price, but UBI _could_ be an upward pressure to prices that doesn't exist today, and that could counter the downward pressure from competition. One argument against that might be that under UBI individuals have more income to start businesses, and so more competition is added that keeps the downward pressure steady. My only points are that it _seems_ like a possible issue, and one that small-scale studies might not be suited to examine.
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I understand competition can prevent inflation and that lower competition markets will have more inflation. My thinking is that the effect on pricing would be more indirect. Maybe companies have to pay more in taxes to cover the UBI. Their costs go up, so pricing adjusts upward universally. Obviously it's way more complex than just UBI/mo + original price, but UBI _could_ be an upward pressure to prices that doesn't exist today, and that could counter the downward pressure from competition. One argument against that might be that under UBI individuals have more income to start businesses, and so more competition is added that keeps the downward pressure steady. My only points are that it _seems_ like a possible issue, and one that small-scale studies might not be suited to examine.