As a result, I remain very skeptical that the opinion you stated as a "fact" above is truly factual in the present, much less would hold true in most of the wider range of plausible future scenarios I summarized above.  Increasing the the min wage to a "living" wage will NOT reduce the number of people who "qualify" for a guaranteed basic income because GBI may also be "universal"--meaning all citizens qualify, regardless of their incomes and wealth--IF any GBI is also truly a UBI, meaning eligibility is NOT based on "need", aka is not "means-tested" in the traditional sense.