Scott you are wrong. When Social security came out farmers, and others self employed, did not have to join. The high inflation of the seventies and eighties caught many short on savings. A family friend retired in 1963 with everything paid for and a hundred thousand in the bank. In the late seventies he and his wife had to go back to work because the cost of living made his savings not return enough to live on. That hundred grand was a fortune in 1963 but not by 1978. In 1966 my Dad as an mechanical engineer made $6600 per year. In 1980 he was making $30,000 a year. In 1966 he bought a new F150 2wd plain jane $1900. In 1980 he bought the same thing for $6500. In fourteen years things tripled. His wages kept up people living on saving did not. In the late sixties or early seventies everyone had to join. There where many in my rural area that never joined social security.
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