I think most of the things that make life worth the trouble of living are fairly nebulous. Purpose. Love. Faith. Honor. Gratitude. Contentment. Wonder. Pretzels. Stuff like that.
I haven’t necessarily leapt out of bed eager to work every day, but when I put it in the context of building a future for my family, it’s been enough to get me moving.
THe social security benefit is calculated by averaging the top 35 years of a persons earnings, adjusted for inflation to current amounts. If you maxed out inputs for 10 years that puts your average somewhere around what an average wage earner would have over the course of their lifetime, so your benefit will likely be in the same range as an average person would get despite not having paid much in for a lot of years.
Yes L I have read that book and many others from people that survived.
Even if I would have continued working for 10 or 15 more years the ss payment was not that much more. Definatly not enough to continue paying in. I also had several years where I was maxed out. Not sure if there were 10 years of them. I definatly noticed the difference in my paycheck.
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