Economics

Welfare is a vital part of a socialist democracy.  The end result of a socialist democracy is the destruction of independence and the daily use of governmental force. Privacy, if not in the first generation under pure democracy or socialism, will lose its importance when the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few(eg privacy), the same is true of socialist democracies.

The only thing that welfare creates is the absolute undeniable implication at a subconscious level to the person receiving aid that they [i]need[/i] it, that there is no way they could do without it and (for more than a few) an inferred inferiority.

Patent systems exist as state enforced exclusions to the use of ideas, systematically removing the native tendency of innovations and inventions to be shared.  This removal of the norm in information dispersion is often seen as detrimental to society as opposed to the benefit of society through a claimed increased motivation to innovate.

If it were the case that patents did not create monopolies, one would expect the same monopolies to develop in a market where patents are enforced to also develop, without exception, in a market where they are not.  Monopolies of the sort that develop with the existence of enforced patents will not exist in a free market devoid of them.

The reason monopolies allowed by patents and other intellectual property could not be developed otherwise is one of scale. If you have a product that you hold the manufacturing process or code to and your product remains unpopular or of relatively low popularity, it is quite easy for you to keep it to yourself without government aid. If, though, your product is a real advancement that the market wants, you must expand your operations. This expense of keeping that process to yourself dramatically increases with scale and demand for that manufacturing process or code.

I'd like to talk in this article about my favorite quote, it comes from one of the greatest minds to ever grace our world:

"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." -Thomas Jefferson

At first glance that quote says a lot but upon further inspection, it says even more; the more you study it the more it says and I think it [i]deserves[/i] to be dissected here for this topic:

thefreedictionary.com: Dependence: 1. The state of being dependent, as for support. 2. Subordination to someone or something needed or greatly desired. 3. The state of being determined, influenced, or controlled by something else. 4. A compulsive or chronic need; an addiction.