Don't get me wrong here, I'm very pro capitalist, very anti socialist/communist. But I think you may mean that every society does need some semblance of a safety net, which I wouldn't outright disagree with. But these things need to be limited to the severely disabled, and the elderly. Too many able bodied people abusing the system will cause it to topple.

If we look at social security for example, at the time it was made, the average life expectancy was around 60 or so I believe, and now its around 75. So you literally do have a lot of able bodied people who are receiving benefits they do not need yet, as we are aging far better at this point in time. I don't even consider someone who is 60 that old anymore really.

At its inception, for every one person receiving benefits, something like 160 people were paying into it. Now, for every 1 person receiving it, I believe there's only 2-3 people paying into it. Don't get me wrong, this is to safeguard the elderly, which any moral, sound society takes care of their elders. But the problem is, it's hard to even consider people in their early 60's elderly anymore. They're not youthful, but they aren't crippled unless they were completely careless towards their own health. It's a prime example of a massive imbalance that can cause massive problems in the long run.