Tournament: UL Rage on the Bayou | Round: 1 | Opponent: Teurlings AD | Judge: panel
There’s no reason to do the aff if we can implement better alternatives that solve the impacts of the affirmative without triggering the impacts of the negative case. There are at least two policy options that just governments ought to pursue instead of guaranteeing an unconditional right of workers to strike. First is a Universal Basic Income. A UBI boosts GDP, labor force participation, income, prices, and wages without . Nikifros et al 17-
Michalis Nikiforos, Marshall Steinbaum, and Gennaro Zezza 17, Michalis Nikiforos is a research scholar working in the State of the US and World Economies program, Marshall Steinbaum is Research Director and a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, Gennaro Zezza is an associate professor of economics at the University of Cassino, Italy, 8-29-2017, "Modeling the Macroeconomic Effects of a Universal Basic Income," Roosevelt Institute, http://rooseveltinstitute.org/modeling-macroeconomic-effects-ubi//HM $1,000 for all... AND ...up as well.
Second is regulation. Countries generally restrict the right to strike, even where Unions are effective and powerful. The impacts of the affirmative could be resolved by ensuring that every nation regulates striking and union bargaining to a certain level. Wass 13-
Dr. Bernd Waas, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, 2012, Strike as a Fundamental Right of the Workers and its Risks of Conflicting with other Fundamental Rights of the Citizens, https://www.islssl.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Strike-Waas.pdf TCHS-CS Limitations of the Right... AND ...to collective bargaining
1/18/22
ND- DA- Business Confidence
Tournament: UL Rage on the Bayou | Round: 1 | Opponent: Teurlings AD | Judge: panel
Business Confidence is high now – best surveys. ICAEW 21-
Business confidence is the best indicator for growth. Khan 20,
Hashmat, and Santosh Upadhayaya. "Does business confidence matter for investment?." Empirical Economics 59.4 (2020): 1633-1665. (Economics Professor at Carleton University)Elmer Abstract Business confidence... AND ...determinants of investment.
Sustained economic growth reduces poverty, improves quality of life, and is key to finding solutions for future global calamities. The economic shock caused by the aff makes these goals unattainable since it halts the sustained economic growth the economy is experiencing coming out of COVID-19 DFID-
(Department for International Development. Growth: Building jobs and prosperity in developing countries. https://www.oecd.org/derec/unitedkingdom/40700982.pdf) TCHS-CS Economic growth is... AND ... policies and institutions
Independently, econ decline causes World War III. Liu 18-
Business confidence is the best indicator for growth. Khan 20,
Hashmat, and Santosh Upadhayaya. "Does business confidence matter for investment?." Empirical Economics 59.4 (2020): 1633-1665. (Economics Professor at Carleton University)Elmer Abstract Business confidence... AND ...determinants of investment.
Sustained economic growth reduces poverty, improves quality of life, and is key to finding solutions for future global calamities. The economic shock caused by the aff makes these goals unattainable since it halts the sustained economic growth the economy is experiencing coming out of COVID-19 DFID-
(Department for International Development. Growth: Building jobs and prosperity in developing countries. https://www.oecd.org/derec/unitedkingdom/40700982.pdf) TCHS-CS Economic growth is... AND ... policies and institutions
Independently, econ decline causes World War III. Liu 18-
Tournament: UL Rage on the Bayou | Round: 1 | Opponent: Teurlings AD | Judge: panel
Essential workers deserve better conditions, but when their services affect other people we have to look at the bigger picture. For example, healthcare workers striking have stark negative effects on the delivery of healthcare. Right now, there are already shortages of access to healthcare. Catchatoorian 21-
Gerrit De; Carleton University, BA in Journalism and Global Politics, tech reporter for The Washington Post. He writes about Google and the algorithms that increasingly shape society. He previously covered tech for seven years at Bloomberg News; Nitashu Tiku; Columbia University, BA in English, New York University, MA in Journalism, Washington Post's tech culture reporter based in San Francisco; Macalester College, BA in English, Columbia University, MS in Journalism, reporter for The Washington Post who is focused on technology coverage in the Pacific Northwest; “Six things to know about the latest efforts to bring unions to Big Tech,” The Washington Post; https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/26/tech-unions-explainer/ TCHS-CS Rural communities, which... AND ...group of people."
Allowing healthcare workers the unconditional right to strike would only exacerbate these shortages. In addition to exacerbating shortages, healthcare workers going on strike would also have negative effects on patients. Gruber and Kleiner 10 -
Tournament: UL Rage on the Bayou | Round: 1 | Opponent: Teurlings AD | Judge: panel
Essential workers deserve better conditions, but when their services affect other people we have to look at the bigger picture. For example, healthcare workers striking have stark negative effects on the delivery of healthcare. Right now, there are already shortages of access to healthcare. Catchatoorian 21-
Gerrit De; Carleton University, BA in Journalism and Global Politics, tech reporter for The Washington Post. He writes about Google and the algorithms that increasingly shape society. He previously covered tech for seven years at Bloomberg News; Nitashu Tiku; Columbia University, BA in English, New York University, MA in Journalism, Washington Post's tech culture reporter based in San Francisco; Macalester College, BA in English, Columbia University, MS in Journalism, reporter for The Washington Post who is focused on technology coverage in the Pacific Northwest; “Six things to know about the latest efforts to bring unions to Big Tech,” The Washington Post; https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/26/tech-unions-explainer/ TCHS-CS Rural communities, which... AND ...group of people."
Allowing healthcare workers the unconditional right to strike would only exacerbate these shortages. In addition to exacerbating shortages, healthcare workers going on strike would also have negative effects on patients. Gruber and Kleiner 10 -
Tournament: UL Rage on the Bayou | Round: 1 | Opponent: Teurlings AD | Judge: panel
Standard is max expected well-being 1- averages and aggregates 2- if we’re all dead nothing else matters
1/18/22
ND- NC- Util
Tournament: UL Rage on the Bayou | Round: 1 | Opponent: Teurlings AD | Judge: panel
Standard is max expected well-being 1- averages and aggregates 2- if we’re all dead nothing else matters
1/18/22
ND- Theory- Defend the Topic
Tournament: UL Rage on the Bayou | Round: 1 | Opponent: Teurlings AD | Judge: panel
A interp- the rez should determine the division between aff and neg ground. the aff may only garner offense from the hypothetical implementation of the resolution, Resolved: A just government ought to recognize the unconditional right of workers to strike. B violation- they don't. they literally said in cx C impacts- 1 predictable limits- they can defend any random advocacy which makes pre-round prep impossible. fairness is an impact- constitutive to debate. also link turns education bc we can't engage in the discussion of the aff if we can't predict it 2 ground- can't read core das against the aff like innovation and essential workers. they said they wouldn't defend links to topical da's in cross. means all we have is a generic debate about whether worker exploitation is good or bad, which obviously is skewed aff DTD- deter future abuse + we can't restart the round C/i- reasonability arbitrary and collapses no rvi- illogical and incentivizes baiting
1/18/22
ND- Theory- Defend the Topic
Tournament: UL Rage on the Bayou | Round: 1 | Opponent: Teurlings AD | Judge: panel
A interp- the rez should determine the division between aff and neg ground. the aff may only garner offense from the hypothetical implementation of the resolution, Resolved: A just government ought to recognize the unconditional right of workers to strike. B violation- they don't. they literally said in cx C impacts- 1 predictable limits- they can defend any random advocacy which makes pre-round prep impossible. fairness is an impact- constitutive to debate. also link turns education bc we can't engage in the discussion of the aff if we can't predict it 2 ground- can't read core das against the aff like innovation and essential workers. they said they wouldn't defend links to topical da's in cross. means all we have is a generic debate about whether worker exploitation is good or bad, which obviously is skewed aff DTD- deter future abuse + we can't restart the round C/i- reasonability arbitrary and collapses no rvi- illogical and incentivizes baiting
1/18/22
SO- CP- Scientific Diplomacy
Tournament: Lafayette City Round Robin | Round: Finals | Opponent: Southside ST | Judge: panel
Text: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to appoint an international panel of scientists including National Academies and corresponding organizations to decide if they should reduce intellectual property protections by implementing a one and done approach to patent protections and manage similar conflicts of interest between intellectual property. Member states must abide by that ruling International panel of science diplomats can rule over IP—-that's key to science diplomacy. Hajjar and Greenbaum 18
David; Dean Emeritus and University Distinguished Professor, and Professor of Biochemistry and Pathology at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, a Jefferson Science Fellow of the National Academies at the U.S. Department of State, and a recent Senior Fellow in Science Policy at the Brookings Institute; Steven; Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Hunter College of the City University of New York and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He was a Jefferson Science Fellow of the National Academies at the U.S. Department of State; "Leveraging Diplomacy for Managing Scientific Challenges," American Diplomacy; September 18; https://americandiplomacy.web.unc.edu/2018/09/leveraging-diplomacy-for-managing-scientific-challenges-an-opportunity-to-navigate-the-future-of-science/~~ Justin At the global level, science diplomacy is defined as cooperation among countries in order AND or funding agency panelists for the advancement of science toward the greater good.
Solves every existential threat. Haynes 18—
research associate in the Neurobiology Department at Harvard Medical School (Trevor, "Science Diplomacy: Collaboration in a rapidly changing world," http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/science-diplomacy-collaboration-rapidly-changing-world/, dml) Re-Cut Justin Today's world is extremely interconnected. Most of us take this fact for granted, AND can to foster collaboration. The future of human civilization depends on it.
1/18/22
SO- DA- Climate Patents
Tournament: Lafayette City Round Robin | Round: Finals | Opponent: Southside ST | Judge: panel
Climate innovation is high and solving warming, but continued investment is key — reducing IP collapses collaboration and investments. Brand 5-26
, Melissa. "Trips Ip Waiver Could Establish Dangerous Precedent for Climate Change and Other Biotech Sectors." IPWatchdog.com | Patents and Patent Law, 26 May 2021, www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/05/26/trips-ip-waiver-establish-dangerous-precedent-climate-change-biotech-sectors/id=133964/ "If an IP waiver is purportedly necessary to solve the COVID-19 global AND the biotech sector addressing climate change may be next on the chopping block.
Only a strong private sector can solve climate change Gulker 19 =
(Naomi Klein, award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics, member of the board of directors of 350.org), This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, pp. 12-14 In a 2012 report, the World Bank laid out the gamble implied by that AND now convinced that global warming poses a clear and present danger to civilization."
1/18/22
SO- DA- International Trade
Tournament: Lafayette City Round Robin | Round: 3 | Opponent: Ascension GO | Judge: panel
The WTO is dying, but the IPR waiver saves it. Stangler 9/10 -
Trade causes food insecurity, environmental destruction, racist and sexist violence, poverty, exploitation, and destroys investment in public wellbeing. Business hoards the gains. Paul and Gebrial ’21 -
Turns case - Free trade leads to massive spread of infectious disease ASU 15-
(Arizona State University, cites a new study by Charles Perrings, an ASU professor of environmental economics, “Infectious disease spread is fueled by international trade” December 22 2015, https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151222163415.htm) International trade and AND impose on consumers."
1/18/22
SO- DA- Pharma Innovation
Tournament: Lafayette City Round Robin | Round: 3 | Opponent: Ascension GO | Judge: panel
Pharmaceutical innovation is high now, and it’s sustained by continued monetary incentives Swagel 21-
Phillip L. Swagel, Director of the Congressional budget office 4-xx-2021, "Research and Development in the Pharmaceutical Industry," Congressional Budget Office, https://www.cbo.goc/publication/57126#_idTextAnchor020 TCHS-CS Every year, the... AND ...or marketing purposes.
The aff crushes innovation in the pharma sector---incentivizes them to focus on non-important issues. Glassman 21-
Amanda; 5/6/21; Executive vice president and a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, a nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank in Washington and London; “Big Pharma Is Not the Tobacco Industry,” Barron, https://www.barrons.com/articles/big-pharma-is-not-the-tobacco-industry-51620315693 TCHS-CS But here is... AND ...penalized, not rewarded.
Pharma Innovation prevents Extinction – checks new diseases. Engelhardt 8-
H. Tristram. Innovation and the pharmaceutical industry: critical reflections on the virtues of profit. M and M Scrivener Press, 2008 (doctorate in philosophy (University of Texas at Austin), M.D. (Tulane University), professor of philosophy (Rice University), and professor emeritus at Baylor College of Medicine) re-cut TCHS-CS Profit in the market... AND ...if not survival.
This impact is damning- future pandemics will be worse and cause mass death AT LEAST. Pamlin and Armstrong 15-
(Dennis Pamlin: Executive Project Manager Global Risks, Global Challenges Foundation. Stuart Armstrong: James Martin Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford. February 15, “12 Risks that threaten human civilisation: The case for a new risk category”, Global Challenges Foundation, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291086909_12_Risks_that_threaten_human_civilisation_The_case_for_a_new_risk_category TCHS-CS Infectious diseases have... AND ...or further pandemics).
1/18/22
SO- NC- Util
Tournament: Lafayette City Round Robin | Round: 3 | Opponent: Ascension GO | Judge: panel The standard is maximizing expected well-being, defined as promoting the most good for the greatest number of people.
Prefer it for two reasons:
1 Actor spec- states can't focus on each person individually, which requires they act on generalities
2 death o/w- forecloses possibility for any future moral goodness. sv doesn't matter if ur dead