Stretch...The Old Geezer here...
How about those who paid in since SS first began... Some of us are still living and drawing on the 1% of our 15 and 20 cents an hour we earned during the great depression of the 30's working in the fields doing the only jobs available then and what the illegals are doing today. Remember the movie "Grapes Of Wrath". Some of us lived that out in real life. Of course, some of us moved up the scale in later years, but never got to live the American dream as it is known today. Education wasn't available to everyone from small town America. It wasn't that important then either.
At least you had the benefit of lower FICA taxes back in the day.
What was it...2% on the first $3000 before they raised it umpteen times?!!!