The event will take place at 6.30 in Building 35 Room 1005, University Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ.
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Monday, 5 November 2018
I'm taking part in a debate on Citizens income at Southampton University this evening
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How did it go?
B, two hours there, two hours back on the M25/m3, pretty much 70 all the way.
The discussion went pretty well, I'd say.
How was the mood "in the house" for CI, positive or negative?
B, mainly supportive, apart from a small Marxist clique who said that money should be abolished, the means of production controlled by workers and then the state dishes out what people need.
I said this was a bit laughable. Pay a parent child benefit, they know best whether the child needs nappies or toys or a new phone or a ticket to the cinema. Do we really want worker/government owned businesses making nappies and deciding how many nappies a parent gets?
"Do we really want worker/government owned businesses making nappies and deciding how many nappies a parent gets?"
Some people do, obviously. They probably have fond memories of/hanker after wartime and postwar rationing, when the state decided what you got to eat. After all, you can't let the people make decisions, they might make the wrong ones, like deciding to leave the EU.
B, the two or three self declared Marxists were all 20 or so. We had one older speaker who was a Tory until Thatcher came along, and about as far from Marxist as you can get.
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