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As time progresses, there are ebbs and flows in human freedom, justice, and sociopolitical systems. This is measured generally in centuries, not lifetimes. There are always those who are hurt in the process, and whose lives are riddled with injustice. I'm not defending this as inevitable, but I do believe that this is happening now to many people. We are in a time of worldwide social uncertainty, and the socialists/communists and their equivalents have been working for many decades now to push their agenda - the setback represented by the collapse of the USSR notwithstanding. That said, just because something is horribly unfair doesn't mean that it can't or won't happen.

I think we've been conditioned for so long to believe that justice will be done, and that the right things will occur in the end, that we forget that history is filled with those individuals who were treated unfairly and for whom justice was never done in the course of their lifetimes. So, yes, it is entirely possible that you and I and all of us who have paid into social security will never significantly benefit from it, while able-bodied mentally healthy people who did not work hard and did not pay into it will reap benefits from it. It is also entirely possible that the entire working life efforts and savings of people who are now close to, or already in retirement will be diluted so much by the devaluation of our currency that they will never come close to the kind of retirement lives that they worked so hard for - and will not have nearly as much to give their children and/or grandchildren as they thought they would in return for their hard work and sacrifice.

I'm not being fatalistic here, but I think it's very important that we all keep in mind that the world won't automatically be fair for us. We have to work to prevent injustice from happening to those we love, and to us, and this is a long and continuous process.