In the US and UK, retirement is only for the super-rich

How many people on this thread have already said they don’t expect to ever be paid this money? More than a couple. It’s a tax. The tax sustains the existing SS benefit. That’s it. Full stop. It doesn’t matter how they dress it and it isn’t going to change. We don’t get to opt out of paying for it but few people of my generation that I’ve ever met expect to ever collect it (I’m a mid-40’s Gen-X).

1 Like