Beginners november tournament: On balance, anarcho-capitalism is better than anarcho-communism

Thank you, SolonKR, for providing your rebuttals. I’d also like to thank Donald.Keller for his mentoring. In this round I’m going to defend against them to show why anarcho communism (ACom) is better than anarcho capitalism (ACap). But first, pro pointed out my fourth source, in which I claimed the average cost of food is roughly $300 a month, wasn’t working. It’s neither working for me, so here’s the link again: http://www.cnpp.usda.gov... I used the one that got published in October 2015. Now on to the defenses. 1. In ACom countries all people will starve to death and in ACap countries everybody will rise together It seems pro both underestimates the power of volunteers and the size of the inequality in ACap countries. Let’s start with the power of volunteers. It turns out that people who have an unemployment benefit work on average 125 minutes a week as a volunteer (1). The situation from these people comes the closest to the situation of people in ACom countries, because these people are well able to work and have the age to work. So with 125 minutes a week people work about 108.33 hours a year. Since the average GDP per hour worked is about $67,32 in the US (2), this gives $7,293 GDP per capita. In round 2 I said the GDP per capita would be roughly $27,210. I hereby take this number back, because I have insufficient sources to back it up. But I’ll replace it with the GDP per capita of $7,293, which I can back up with sources. This is still more than double the yearly expenses from food people have every year (fixed source at beginning of this round). So in ACom countries people really don’t have to worry about starving to death. Now the power of volunteers is pointed out, let’s continue with the size of the inequality in ACap countries. I already pointed this out in the previous rounds. Inequality tends to be close to an 80/20 pattern. Furthermore, in ACap countries nothing is preventing people from enslaving others. Nobody said ACap was fun. 2. There’s no difference in level of crime between ACap and ACom countries It seems pro isn’t convinced there’s less crime in ACom countries. I based this mainly on conflict criminology. This states that crime in capitalistic countries can get explained by the fact capitalistic countries have a wealthy elite. This elite wants to oppress the lower class. The lower will sometimes turn to crime to gain the material wealth that leads to equality (3). Furthermore, the Bureau of Justice Statistics stated this: In 2004, 17% of state prisoners and 18% of federal inmates said they committed their current offense to obtain money for drugs. (4) So clearly money plays a role in a big chunk of the crimes that are committed. So because many crimes are about conflicts between different classes and money, it’s clear that ACom countries have less crime. After all, there are no classes and money to commit crimes over. 3. The egalitarian framework is bad, because of the bandwagon fallacy Frameworks are tools to tell judges what they should (and shouldn’t) value. Egalitarianism is a subjective framework, so to show this is a good framework I need to show many people have the opinion that equality is good. Since multiple big religions claim they value equality, I showed the majority of the people have the opinion that equality is important. With that I proved many people value equality. Therefore the framework is relevant. Conclusion This was an interesting debate, but there can be only one winner. I’ll recap this debate from my point-of-view to show why I should win this debate. ACom countries are able to fulfill the physiological needs of people, because volunteers produce enough. Furthermore, ACom countries also have less crime, so the safety is also fulfilled. A third advantage is that in ACom countries there’s lots of equality, which gets valued by many people. On the contrary, ACap countries struggle with fulfilling the physiological needs of many poorer people. The safety is also not that wonderful. Furthermore, there’s also a lot of inequality, which goes against the egalitarian framework. Since there is nothing in ACap countries that prevents slavery from happening this is also an issue with ACap countries. I’ll now hand the debate back to pro, so he can post his defenses as well. Sources 1) http://www.cbs.nl... 2) https://en.wikipedia.org... 3) https://en.wikipedia.org... 4) http://www.bjs.gov...