Look,
We all know that Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme. That is not new information.
Yes, we all have paid into it *some*. But we aren’t just going to receive back *some*, we aren’t just going to receive back our money and only our money. We will end up receiving other people’s money.
The “other people” - the victims, are perfectly and legitimately aggrieved by this. They are, actually, in fact, victims here. They are. 100%. This is not arguable. They are victims.
They shouldn’t lose their money any more than you should lose your money but the fact that you couldn’t give a damn about anybody else’s but your own is precisely the problem we face with GenZ.
GenZ is not wrong. And that’s why they aren’t stopping. They’re not wrong. Why should people who are correct have to stop? That’s a ridiculum.
GenZ + Margaret Thatcher is once again proving the old addage of the problems societies face when you start running out of other people’s money.
And dammit FDR did this to us. It was only a matter of time before his whole system caused a generational war; old fighting young. The young generation who gets pissed about being stolen from, and the old generation who says they deserve it based on what they paid while simultaneously ignoring the portion of the paybacks which are not legitimately yours. If you are receiving someone else’s money then the fact is you’re receiving too much money, not what you paid in.
FDR did this. The old vs young war is here.
Social Security could have been strung out much longer had our politicians not used it as a quick-fix for deficit problems over the years without bothering to replace those funds, let alone emplace safeguards to prevent plundering in the first place.
That precarious and limited employment options would favor a resurgence of unions would seem likely - had not nearly all of them given in to corruption, greed and broken promises like the very forces it swore to protect workers from.
Some bemoan the inevitable rise of Artificial Intelligence, believing it will accelerate overall loss of jobs. I think it can, if handled wisely, assist in helping America regain the production economy that we excelled at between WWII and the Clinton-era offshoring it all.
The Chinese know this - hence their massive anti-AI propaganda campaign spreading like their COVID virus...except this bug is ideological rather than biological.