The modern welfare state is a gigantic Ponzi scheme. To survive, it needs a constantly growing number of contributors, or at least a constant ratio of contributors to recipients. Its sprawling bureaucracy has contributed to the systematic fall in productivity rates in the economies that have expanded it. Too much capital is tied up in unproductive areas of the respective societies. Another symptom of its growth is the collapse of the family as the social pillar of society. It will a la long be the solution to the problem if societies are forced to scale back their welfare state activities for economic reasons. At the same time, massive poverty migration is weighing on the social systems of these strong countries. This migration is now acting as a fire accelerator and will dissolve the structures faster than the inherent process is able to achieve.