[Persevero]

Yes, they are a dependent class.

The ss system neatly removes incentive for providing for your own retirement AND decreases your ability to do so. It absolves kin from the responsibility of caring for you, too.

So you become a dependent of the state.

[oh8eleven]

The ss system neatly removes incentive for providing for your own retirement
BS. I'm a baby boomer and I can remember since high school being told & taught that SS was just one part of a "three legged stool."
That some don't get the message - or choose to ignore it - is their fault not the system's fault.