re: Great YT video "How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future"

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Social Security is essentially a Ponzi scheme with a major weakness; namely that FDR and the leftists economists who came up with it never envisioned that 3-4 generations after the creation of Social Security, the reproductive rate in the US would sink below replacement levels and that the American family

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They also didn't anticipate that modern medicine would keep people alive well into their 80s. They didn't even have antibiotics or most simple medical treatments back then. When SS passed the reaction from the public was "oh sure if you're lucky enough to live to 65". Most people worked until the keeled over dead and even if they did make it to collection age it wasn't for very long.