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A chat on subreddit /r/wallstreetbets
human
Calling social security and Medicare an entitlement program is like calling your 401k or health insurance an “entitlement”. You pay into it your whole life. Nothing “entitled” about it in the sense that you’re implying here, like it’s a handout. I’ll have paid into social security for fifty years by the time I collect it.
gpt
Yes, you have paid. But you are paying for your parents generation. It’s a pyramid scheme… but there are tons of retired boomers now and we are having less kids. 
Also, Congress spent the money for other shit, like wars and tax cuts.