RE: The original concept of social security was that people paid into it on a regular basis and received the benefits when they retired.
Well, the point of that article is that the original concept NO LONGER APPLIED AS FAR BACK AS 60 years ago.
Those who paid more do not get what they paid into and those who paid less or nothing, get more than what they paid into.
And here’s the part that hurts, if, God forbid, you do not live long enough to get back what you paid into ( say, you died at age 65 ), what you paid into does not come back to your family, it gets given to someone else.
“original concept NO LONGER APPLIED AS FAR BACK AS 60 years ago.”
Tell that to the people who take the money out of my check ever 2 weeks. The politicians have created giveaway programs within Social Security and they have screwed up the formulas for funding and payment but for the people who have paid in all their working lives it is NOT welfare.