The recipe for globalization is a recipe for destruction. Consumers in the nation-state who have had a wide array of choices opened up to them overnight as a result of globalization can hardly be expected to confine their purchasing habits to the organization of their own country when there are foreign organizations selling the same product with higher quality coming to them at a lower price . Therefore, organizations confined to domestic operations in the nation-state exposed to globalization for the first time will be wiped out as a result of disappearing demand for their products. In to survive , these businesses turn to the government for assistance . This distorts the most important operating principle of the free market economy in which governments cannot interfere to alter how market forces operate. Because local business cannot survive on their own however , the government has to put up aid in the form of subsidies and trade tariffs which have the effect of limiting international trade. Government aid balances the scales somewhat in the form of subsidies enabling local businesses to make their products more affordable and in the form of trade tariffs forcing foreign businesses to set their prices higher. However the money for subsidies has to come from somewhere and this is where the welfare state suffers. Under globalization, the government prioritizes aiding local businesses