Originally Posted by
rickair7777
But you need the rest of the story...
Average life expectancy was HIGHLY skewed by infant/youth mortality back then (especially from all those diseases the anti-vaxers are working so hard to bring back).
If you actually survived long enough to pay into SS, odds are good you'd collect. Healthy adults didn't keel over dead at 45 much more frequently than they do now. Many of them actually got quite a lot of exercise and ate organic (if fat-heavy) foods. Google the founding fathers... on average their life spans were closer to 70 than 40.
Hush, stop using logic and data to prove it is just plain old greed why many want the age limit to increase, and for that matter don’t. Greed is instinct to humans. Put one toy in front of two children, a toy they both want, and watch what happens. The toy just changes to money (power, popularity, notoriety, praise, love, etc) as we grow.