The difference you will get back what you paid into it, more or less. Our deficit currently stands at $28.5 trillion. If you think SS will still be there when I hit retirement age in 2055 (assuming they haven’t raised the age by then) I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
I also remember at 30 sitting around ‘biatching’ about how there would be no money when ‘we’ were ‘due’ ours.
I am 82 so get a nice piece of change etc etc etc
Of course, the ‘inventors’ of the Ponzi scheme figured those that would REALLY need it would be alive at 65 anyway...
oh, I did wait till I turned 70 to start collecting....