Reply #3: Bullshit. Folks have been peddling that viral meme for decades.

[TahitiNut]

The post-WW2 workforce size has been pretty consistently about 1/2 of the population. At the end of 2005, the size of the workforce was about 150,000,000 workers - close to where it is today. That means that half of the people in this country work to support themselves and the other half. That's better than the 19th century when the whole reason for schools to be closed during summer was so the children could work in the fields; when "social security" was having eight children so those that lived might care for the parents; when houses held three generations and people without children died in the streets as soon as they couldn't work.

Let's talk about who works and who can't/won't work, OK?

We have people too young to work. They're called "our children."
We have people too old to work. They're called "our parents."
We have people too disabled to work. They're called "our veterans, our brothers, and our sisters."
We have people too rich to work. They're called the "ownership class."

Just like the plantation owners once killed off the slaves too old to work because they wanted more of the wealth created from labor for themselves, we have an "owership class" today who are more and more jealous of sharing the wealth created by labor ... wanting more for themselves and letting workers keep less.