You don't even have to die early to pass private assets to your heirs. Invested properly, the amount I have paid into SS could pay me back much more than the benefit I receive with a very safe, less than 4% withdrawal rate.
From an economic standpoint these are entitlements. But, from an ethical standpoint, they are earned entitlements as opposed to things like welfare, which is an unearned entitlement.
“earned entitlements”
So, if I voluntarily deposit money in a bank account and then start withdrawing it, is that an “earned entitlement”?
If every paycheck of mine for nearly 50 years is robbed at gunpoint by the government and I receive SS “credits” in my account and am promised to receive SOME of that money back is that “earned”; why isn’t it that I am simply being returned SOME of the money stolen from me?
Why is withdrawing a voluntary deposit not an “earned entitlement” but withdrawing SOME of the money stolen from me by the government at gunpoint an “earned entitlement”?