Judging by the Federal Social Security System as it currently stood, its main purpose was still to provide the Working Class with various forms of protection, such as medical coverage and a social pension system.
But it also locked the Working Class into the labor market. Over a span of thirty years, the actual cost was not high, but the period was simply too long.
It practically bound up an entire lifetime of work! From one perspective, this seemed like a good thing. It allowed workers to labor their whole lives without ending up with nothing to rely on in their old age.
They might not become very wealthy, but at least they would not go hungry or freeze.
Yet this idea, which had originally started with good intentions, ultimately became a cage for the Working Class.
Once something like the Great Depression occurred, factories closed one after another and workers lost their jobs. They could no longer pay their contributions on time, and thus could not enjoy lifelong protection.
No one could guarantee that in the thirty years after they began working, their factory would not go bankrupt or the economy would not decline. No one could guarantee it.
Even an accident could change their future!
But now, on the basis of assuming that the contribution period would be shortened, the senator had raised a question that Mr. Williams could not answer.
If members of the Working Class had paid enough Social Security Funds to obtain lifelong protection at the age of forty, would they still work as diligently as they did now until retirement?
If they could no longer maintain their hardworking spirit and simply stopped working as long as the money in their pockets was enough to support their families—
Then went out to take temporary jobs