I have known it was a ponzi scheme since my first job in High School, and through my whole working career, where I also interacted with many who were destitute living on meager SS and disability checks. Just enough to stay alive to feed the matrix system with a little more tax juice ... The crime was that unless one was self-employed there were scant few jobs that did not mandate (familiar word these days) FICA "contributions".

The story line isn't one of blaming a generation (I don't think), the real plot is the fallacy of gov't welfare programs that are only designed to gain votes. I am of the belief that EVERY gov't program fits this paradigm, or at least I cannot think of one that doesn't. The worst is yet to come when this socialized medical system crashes under the fouled theatrical promises of delusional criminals (politicians used as human meat puppets for the pharmaceutical and insurance billionaires).