I'll pay in probably something like $250k-$500k in, and I'll doubt I'll get even the principal amount out. If I were in charge of investing my own social security, I'd end up with millions.
The coming generations are the ones that will feel the pain. It's likely that SS will switch to a partial stock market funding. Where some of the money the government deducts will be invested in the stock market.
Nice of the elders to wipe the slate clean on their way out dismantling what they benefited from.
Thomas Jefferson wrote that Constitutions must be rewritten every 19 years to be updated with modern thought. Or else the next generations are ruled by fiat decree.
So it's for the best. Would be preferred if such was done intentionally and not made a necessity due to malfeasance of the dying generation.
I hope a capital-gains tax is considered as part of the mix.