This made my night for the same reasons.
Methinks England 2035 may actually be prophetic.
Maybe also a meme entitled Europe 2035.
Due to what I recently read about Sweden, me dino is very glad my paternal grandfather migrated the hell out of there.
Guess who is also a quarter Irish?
The rest of me is an intermarried mix of God knows what stemming from the British kicking French people out of Canada a way longer time ago.

I can agree with you sort of and only part way. It's a mix of a Ponzi scheme and a welfare program. The problem is people like my wife and I (and our respective employers on our behalf) were forced to pay into the scheme (taxed) all of our working lives and we are expecting a ROI (Return On Investment) as if it were an actual investment or savings account. The Ponzi part comes into play when it requires new "investors" to pay into the system to pay off old "investors" who are now collecting because the so-called investment or savings fund has been raided or misspent by politicians since LBJ in the '60s. The welfare (wealth redistribution) part comes into play when people who paid in virtually nothing are receiving full benefits out. The most recent class of these recipients are retired government employees, who are collecting government retirement checks, are now also collecting SS due to a stroke of Biden's pen - a married couple close to me and my wife are now BOTH recipients who never paid in. Politician pen strokes have been raiding the fund for decades. Those of us who were forced to pay in all of our working lives are receiving only a fraction of what we could be getting if the same money were invested in any number of private funds over the decades.

No, if Ayn Rand wrote Atlas Shrugged today, the basis for the character would have been a close friend of mine named Albin Czernichowski. Dr. Czernichowski built the plasma arc reactor in Cold War Communist Poland but would not give it to the Commies. He didn't make money off of it until 2006-2009 when we both joined the same company. The plasma arc reactor is the proper name for Mr. Fusion from The Back to the Future movies. When Obama decided to fund our solar energy competition, we read Atlas Shrugged as a company and shrugged (i.e. sold the company). It was very sad, but the proper thing to do. Only this year have I come out of shrugging in a completely different industry.