Have you compared the amount being paid out in government pensions to SS payouts? Might be interesting to know.
For the government pensions it’s easy to calculate. It’s 1% for each year of service against an average of youtube high 3 salaries. So a 40 year career will get you a 40% salary pension. The old fed pensions and many state pension now are way overly generous.
Social security is a BS scam. Someone who pays in half as much gets 80% of the benefit. The third bend point is 15$. To understand how SS funnel monies to lower payed people you have to understand the bend points.