Money has time value; interest and dividends can be earned; purchased assets such as stocks and real estate can appreciate. Plus due to inflation the dollar of 1960 or any other past year was worth more, even far more, in purchasing power than today's dollar. Social Security is lose-lose except for the disability and survivor insurance components. Most of us would be millionaires, even multimillionaires, if what was confiscated from us for FICA over our working years had been invested in a S&P 500 index fund.
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"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth." Plato
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