[liberallarry]

In 1940, the life expectancy was 63.6 years and the age at which benefits were paid was and is 65. And if you did live that long, you probably wouldn’t have been around much longer to draw money from the system. In other words, they found a new way to collect money from you based on the fiction that that it was yours and you could start collecting it when you reach 65, which they figured most of you would not.

The AVERAGE or MEDIAN life expectancy was 63.6 years. In orther words HALF the population lived longer...many quite a bit longer. If the author is wrong about something so basic is this article worth anything at all?

[waverna]

Doesn't matter, if the current median is higher than the original, and retirement age is still 65, the logic stands