There are definitive benefits and drawbacks to both.

1 vote Dog-Eat-Dog

2 votes - Utopian

The dog-eat-dog variety would obviously be an easier time on you guys, I'd be less brutal on retaliations by official means and coming across tools and weaponry and getting jobs done would be easier- but you'd have a lot more underground competition and resistance

Utopian would have less underground resistance- but it'd be more elite, as the government forces would also be escalated to rather oppressive levels. Tools, weaponry, and jobs would be harder to come by and accomplish- but far more satisfying if you're masochistic like that.