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Episode 42 - Declining Birth Rates

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Social Security Can't Survive in a Situation Like That

When social security was first introduced in the 1930s, life expectancy was somewhere around 60. Now we're retiring three years to five years after that in general. Our system isn't designed to have people work like crazy and then get decades of leisure. And so you think about people not being able to rely on social security, those that don't have resources are going to suffer.

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