>Well the question you fail to ask is, are the conditions the same at inception to today? Except for the fact that at inception nobody had spent their entire l

>Well the question you fail to ask is, are the conditions the same at inception to today? Except for the fact that at inception nobody had spent their entire life paying into the system: yes. The demographic lifespan differentials are similar. >Why is every imbalance a racial issue? This is a system that, on average, redistributes money from poor black people to wealthy white/Asian people. Simple as that. The article already covers the wealth issue, but even correcting for wealth blacks/hispanics have lower lifespans than whites/Asians. >All that really matters is that people who get to the appropriate age are paid similar benefits. That's the WHOLE point of my argument, is what the "appropriate age" is based off of. Presumably it has something to do with ability to perform labor at various life stages. The life expectancy differential between a white woman and a black man is over a decade. That we treat those two groups the same with regard to how we calculate their life stage is insane.