Subject: Re: Social Security
Both DW & I will be 70 this year and, together, we'll gross about $98K/yr in benefits. Now I'll happily take all that as the employer who funded my pension plan really screwed us, but somehow I don't think this was the amount the originators of SS had in mind...

You are an outlier. The system doesn't have to be perfect, it only needs to be good enough.