Here are some additional factors to consider: Number of people being irrelevant might mean that a welfare recipient doesn't work but enables someone else to wo

Here are some additional factors to consider: Number of people being irrelevant might mean that a welfare recipient doesn't work but enables someone else to work, or if someone doesn't get welfare, they work, but their support is withdrawn from someone else. It could also mean that the benefit is not enough for them to consider not working. That is to say that their ambitions are greater than merely surviving, the enabling of which is the foundational goal of a reasonable welfare program. I think I would agree that welfare is a corporate subsidy in some sense, but it covers more people than corporations would without the subsidy, including people unable to work or for whom paid work is less beneficial than some uncompensated task.