I agree that SS doesn't actually have capital and that it runs in the red. Had the earlier generation not insisted on contributing just enough to cover running costs and little more, the scheme should have been secure effectively forever by now. Instead it's going to run out of $ with its last years dominated by the culprits hoovering from current taxpayers while boasting about their own masterly underfunding when it was their watch. If anybody has a poor expectation of others, surely it is the expectation that younger people are sheep who will tolerate this just because the beneficiaries vote to force them to.