As capitalism increases, as an economic system to produce wealth for the provision of entitlement welfare programmes, there is starting to emerge a direct correlation between the amount of western welfare dependency in relation to the disparity in wealth. In other words, the higher the occurance of laissez-faire (unregulated), capitalism within a society, the more relative poverty it produces, including the social by-products of a rapidly declining middle class, rising crime rates, civil unrest . . . This did not happen under the original welfare system, which was designed as a contributory social insurance scheme, not a lifestyle choice.
It is no coincidence that the current highest GDP growth rate is occuring in those societies which