I was a civil servant and paid nothing into Social Security. Since the 80s, you have to pay into Medicare, but not Social Security. Teachers don’t pay into SS. It used to be that if you had a government job, you had a pension and you didn’t pay into SS. Same for small privately owned businesses and the self-employed.
I know a lot of that has changed since the 80s. But these RVers were in their 30s to 50s back then, and not planning for their golden years to be played out in a dystopian cyberpunk future.
1 Like
