If you receive a multiple of what you paid into social security in your life, it is an entitlement.
You can’t call Social Security (full ret) an entitlement because entitlements aren’t taxable.
I am not talking about some 25 yo drawing from the Soc Sec System (I would say fund but we all know there is no fund - well, everyone but algore - he is still looking for that lock box).
You know something is wrong with a system when, after paying into it for say 30 years and you offer to ‘opt out’, you keep what I put in, no questions asked, and they tell you that you can’t.