It was a fiction the instant the program started.
“It was a fiction the instant the program started.”
When Social Security started, it was the norm for retirees to move in with their kids/grandkids and help raise those kids.
That was when there was large tight knit families.
Social Security was designed to be a supplemental income, it was never intended to be what people think of it today as being something to live independently.
It’s the byproduct of the liberalization of society. Breaking up families, fostering a sense of entitlement, etc.