scientsts get it - why don't economists?

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Mike the Mad Biologist:

Roughly one-third of all Social Security payouts go to the disabled. One thing I haven't heard in all of the discussion about private Social Security accounts is how these accounts would work for the disabled. Suppose you're 45, middle class, and unable to work anymore. How much could your private account be worth? Maybe the privatizers haven't answered this, because the answer is straightforward: not very much.

A comment here says that the disability payments, while administered by SSA, are actually drawn from the general fund, not the (retirement) trust, and so shouldn't be affected.

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Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses? The [disabled] should just die and decrease the surplus population.

That's how it's supposed to work under privatization.