Yes, you would. That's what basic income is. If you make $1,000,000 per year and basic income of $10,000 is introduced, you now make $1,010,000 per year (before taxes).
You're misunderstanding me here. I'm saying the exact opposite of what you think I'm saying. My point is that the market for wages would find a new, lower equilibrium to compensate for the new basic income. Since there's only a finite amount of money in the economy, and we can't magically give everybody that much more, it has to come from somewhere. A Basic Income approach would still have to redistribute the existing money, not create additional money (at least not on such a scale). The average total income (basic income + wages) would remain largely unchanged (modulo changes in tax structure, GDP growth or shrinkage, etc.).
"there's only a finite amount of money in the economy"
I'm not sure of your definition of money here- the Government prints currency all the time. If you mean goods and services, why can't we produce more? Are you saying that our current economic output is at it's maximum capacity?
I thought it was obvious that I was talking about money at some specific point in time? Especially since I also mentioned the option of creating money?
So, you did. I missed that. So I guess my next question is why can't we just create more? The (increased) amount we would have to create would not be equal to the amount of the basic income, because we could eliminate most welfare programs and their associated overhead. On the surface, I don't see a problem with printing the rest.
You're misunderstanding me here. I'm saying the exact opposite of what you think I'm saying. My point is that the market for wages would find a new, lower equilibrium to compensate for the new basic income. Since there's only a finite amount of money in the economy, and we can't magically give everybody that much more, it has to come from somewhere. A Basic Income approach would still have to redistribute the existing money, not create additional money (at least not on such a scale). The average total income (basic income + wages) would remain largely unchanged (modulo changes in tax structure, GDP growth or shrinkage, etc.).