Basic income will never work, IMO. Mostly because economy is a zero-sum game (more or less). You cannot unconditionally distribute sufficient money for everyone's food, clothing and shelter, because in the end someone will have to create that food, clothing and shelter.
So how big of a difference would it make to me personally if a basic income was adopted to simply replace existing government spending? For starters, I could buy a new car if this were adopted today. If it replaced child support I could buy a new house as well.
This is why a basic income always leads to inflation, IMO. *Everyone* would be able to buy more, which leads to an increase in prices. Furthermore, certain types of low-pay work would no longer be performed. The only way to get workers to do these jobs would be to pay them more. This also leads to an increase in prices.
And suddenly the basic income would no longer be sufficient for food, clothing and shelter.
Regarding inflation,
No one could escape it, the “rich” pay more,
This is naive, IMO. You can escape inflation by investing money into property. The people suffering from inflation the most are those who have only little money and save that up for "bad times" in their bank account or under the mattress.
The rich can even take credit from banks, using their property as collateral. In that case they *win* from inflation.