It’s not the baby boomer generation that ruined the system. That generation by and large consisted of hard workers who paid into the system for a lifetime and didn’t use the system until retirement. It was and is the generations since who have learned to scam the system.
Flemming v. Nestor 1960. Look it up. Here's the cache from the SS gov website itself (interestingly the page appears to have been erased recently!)
Mind you this is 51 years that this has been the case, so there's no excuse for any person not to be aware of the terms under which Social Security is collected (by force) and distributed (at the sole discretion of the government).
This whole time too, the Boomer generation knew it was unusually large and had every reason to know that attempting to retire and collect SS payments en masse would crash the system. For 51 years they voted and voted and voted and time and time again they declined to change the system. When the time came to step up to the plate, they made Social Security the "third rail of American politics" (I heard that phrase so often I get nausea even quoting it.) They have ZERO reason to complain at the mathematically inevitable consequences of their own actions.
I guess personal responsibility joins property rights in the garbage bin of principles discarded when there's real money on the line.