Reply #11: I think you are missing the point [View All]

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SS is meant as a social responsibility to pay for retirement and for those retiring that will need it cause they have been ill / been in war or for whatever reason. Carrying the burden, private accounts as I have seen it till now is a selfish act by and for those that in most cases wouldn't really have to care in the first place, those affected will be those that are invalids / lower and groups of the middle class etc. etc.

SS is not "how well will I be off" but a "how well will we ALL be off" in the long run.

SS has been raised, but that wouldn't have filled the gap, everyone knows that.