[Tolsti2]

Except it’s not ‘given back’. It wasn’t held for you anywhere. It paid for the ones collecting while you worked, and now you’re collecting from the next ones.

A ponzi scheme.

[deoetdoctrinae]

It paid for the ones collecting while you worked, and now you’re collecting from the next ones.

So if I retire tomorrow and apply for Social Security, but the government dissolves Social Security for future participants next week, I will never collect a dime?