I don’t know many people who plan to rely on social security for retirement.
I rarely take vacations, and don't anticipate ever really retiring. But as long as I am contributing to a system in which able-bodied people in good mental health can choose not to work, what's there to be upset about..
No, but when they get there they find that it is very helpful. OTOH I try not to spend it, but to pass it down to the children/grandchildren who are paying it. Some now, hopefully a lot in my wife’s will. When SS goes bust they are likely to need it.Certainly, I don’t relate well to the concept of voting for increases in SS.The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
I agree,but when it gets to the point where you can’t do what you were doing,can’t find anything suitable,& made subsistence wages when you were working......what are the options?