>I certainly agree that people should work while they can and retirement and pension was only supposed to cover a few years when you could no longer work.
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>Holy Mackerel! Call Ripley! We actually agree on something.
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>When the UK pension system was initially created most people died before or shortly after pensionable age.
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>Same thing here for Medicare. I am pretty sure that when Social Security stared here in the 1930's life expectancy was not much more than 65.

You';d be surprised.

Another partial agreement we might have would be over benefits (social security)

I often hear people here say "its not worth working if its not well paid I won't be any better off than if I was on benefits".
To me thats not what social security is for. Its a safety net for when people literally cannot find any work.