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Social security benefits- United States

I’ve been thinking about this… Social Security is supposed to run out of adequate funding soon (I have no idea when, this is said a lot) or so they say. A lot of older people that hire younger people don’t want to pay them an appropriate wage, but also want their Social Security payments upon retirement/old age. I may misunderstand the system, but if they pay people a good amount, and money is taken from paychecks, wouldn’t they get more money into the social security system? I don’t know a lot about the Social Security system honestly, but isn’t the amount taken out proportional to the amount of pay? And I understand that younger people may not get any money because there are less of them, and working lower paying jobs. But in general, NOT ALWAYS, companies/bosses seem to look out for themselves. To me it seems like higher wages…


I’ve been thinking about this… Social Security is supposed to run out of adequate funding soon (I have no idea when, this is said a lot) or so they say. A lot of older people that hire younger people don’t want to pay them an appropriate wage, but also want their Social Security payments upon retirement/old age. I may misunderstand the system, but if they pay people a good amount, and money is taken from paychecks, wouldn’t they get more money into the social security system?

I don’t know a lot about the Social Security system honestly, but isn’t the amount taken out proportional to the amount of pay? And I understand that younger people may not get any money because there are less of them, and working lower paying jobs. But in general, NOT ALWAYS, companies/bosses seem to look out for themselves. To me it seems like higher wages would fit in with that whole thing. Explain?

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