I am suspicious of signing up because of the DOGE raid into the system and putting more info than they already have..which is everything, anyway. I’ve never had to inquire or had a problem with SS or Medicare, for that matter, as everything has run smoothly..as it should. Any others signing up?

I’m going to start the process for myself starting in January when I turn 70 at the end of March !

OUCH I’m going to be 70!

and got my paper statement in the mail a couple weeks ago. I can still go online via Login.gov to get to SS, although they have changed how that works (I use that to look at my federal retirement stuff), including a whole new convoluted "verification/authentication" configuration process.

Historically, new technologies have invariably sidelined some existing occupations, but new jobs and career opportunities have always replaced the ones that were lost.

and if AI does have the effect on employment that many suspect it will, it will definitely lead to changes. With all of this "America First" BS, you would think it would be a good time to protect America's Seniors?

There ain't enough of us, and we don't have the Boomer's lifetime earnings either. Many of us are IT as well. The money isn't gong to be there from taxing wage earner's income alone. SS funding is going to have to change, possibly in some big ways, even if everything was going well.

Tax them by the number of employees they fire.

like the funding gap moving ever closer to near term and a disfunctioning government incapable of fixing it; and, with few people talking about it.

applicable to those particular industries. If AI is joining the workforce, it can damned well contribute to SS and Medicare employment taxes. Or maybe $100,000 a person HB-1 visa's for every job they take, they are stealing American jobs and aren't American citizens.

a good 60 years I've been reading that Social Security is going to run out of money soon. And at least so far, Congress essentially ups the funding and we continue to get SS.

These Republicans will not be here forever. I suspect (someone who follows this more closely can help out here) that the 2026 election will change lots of things.

Meanwhile, anyone and everyone who voted for Republicans this past election totally deserve it. Even though the rest of us don't.

That is right wing framing on steroids. Fund the damn program.

The elephant (or mastodon or brontosaurus…) in the room is that the reason all these mega corporations are going all in on AI is that they can envision a time when they can dispense with their highly trained knowledge workers. These are the expensive ones.

AI can’t do it now, but the El Dorado these corporate leadership teams are dreaming of is an employee-less future.

If AI becomes as capable as these corporate sociopaths want it to be the world will sink into an economic depression that it will never emerge from.

What does a consumer economy look like when the consumers cannot buy living space and food much less spend at a level that will sustain a growing economy?

Well, it will be something worse than the Great Depression.

And that would take down everything—not just Social Security.

These corporate overlords want to make humans superfluous.

I am starting to think that we all need to become neo-Luddites. And I’m a technology guy of 40+ years.

But, this being 'Murica, that won't happen.

We useless meatbags will be simply left high and dry after a lifetime of contributing our labor to this country.

So so those billionaires can pay their fair share.

Remove the cap. Have them contribute as high a percentage as everyone else. Wouldn't mind seeing the Income tax % from the Eisenhower years.

Republicans want the health care trifecta they've dreamed about since the day Saint Ronnie was elected Pres.

Medicaid GONE
Medicare GONE
Social Security GONE

Since 2010 you can add the ACA to the list too. Possibly as high as 18 MILLION MAGA morons will find out in less than a WEEK that the very fuckers they vote for over and over have now killed health insurance for them and their family.