Most of the employed of us would be net tax payers and would be (I'm guessing) unwilling to go to the much lower salary that would make us net basic-incomers (even marginally). For me, I'd either save/spend less -- or be more aggressive with my prices to get salary up again. It depends on how much more tax I owe. So far, tax-increases in the past few years have not changed my lifestyle at all (they aren't big enough to care much) -- a tax covering basic income would have to be much bigger though (right? -- does anyone have numbers?)

It would be a nice cushion for those of us that might be taking 0 salary to start a business, but my guess, again, is that they hope to be moving towards higher incomes.

In retirement, I assume basic income is just SS (in the US), perhaps a little more. The main benefit to me is that it would start earlier -- and the main benefit of that is that it would cover medical insurance. That would make it much more likely that I would retire earlier.