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Social security relies on future workers

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It isn't a personal savings account; it is essentially a legally mandated generational transfer. The money pulled from your paycheck today directly funds the people currently retired, meaning the entire system only survives if enough new workers keep blindly entering the grinder.

Social security relies on future workers
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