Comment to Jun 27, 2025 Substack article by Matthew Rozsa about Social Security
Dear Mr. Rozsa,
I found it very interesting at the end of this article about social security, that you mentioned that you have autism. I look forward to reading your book about the perspective on our capitalist system from someone who has autism.
As I believe I do, also, have a form of limited autism, but I've never been diagnosed. I self-diagnosed (and also diagnosed my father, now deceased) after seeing the movie The Accountant, which I found highly valuable as well as entertaining on a number of levels that were personally enriching to me.
I found myself feeling frustrated repeatedly while reading your article. I kept wondering if you had used a transcription program to type out the words that were spoken/recorded in the interview you had, with Mr. O'Malley?
Poorly edited. At least.
Perhaps there should have been a follow-up interview with clarifying questions getting answered?
I felt like I was walking down the sidewalk and kept tripping over things that I hadn't seen in my way. Sentences that didn't make sense to me, were incomplete, or thoughts that were just left hanging without follow-up questioning.
Parts of it were excellent!
I'm glad I read it.
Other parts of it sounded like I was listening to Donald Trump and his incoherent word salad. Not as bad as that, but from the same salad bar, so to speak.
I wonder if you had anyone else read your article before you published it? A lot of it was bewildering to me, referencing things I didn't understand, or just saying things that made no sense to me. And I'm a pretty intelligent person. In my opinion.
In the future, if you want, perhaps you could send me an article before you publish it, and I could give you my feedback on it? I could mark it up. I was actually an editor in high school on the school paper, years ago. (And the photographer.) I learned how to mark up a piece of writing. I would need to brush up on that language.
I know that offer just came out of left field! You don't even know me. But it seems like you could lose a little help in the editing Department. My offer is genuine.
You wrote a very important article. It left me unsatisfied. Not only from the aspect that questions have yet to be answered by Mr. Musk, but it felt like there were big blank spots in the interview, or at least in the transcript. In your article. In my opinion.
After reading this article of yours, I have a lot of unanswered questions about social security. About Mr. Musk. About the legality and the propriety of what the whole Doge exercise was and is about. Lots of unanswered questions. The basis for a follow-up article?
Follow-up interview?
I would be glad to share my questions and thoughts with you, if you like. Like about how Social Security gets paid into? How much is a person entitled to receiving? Who established the $170,000 limit? Why was it set at that Mark? What's the rationale for NOT paying into Social Security beyond that Mark? What's the rationale FOR paying into security beyond that Mark?
Is there some inherent obligation that people who become wealthy OWE to society, to the society from which they gleaned so much wealth? Or is it okay that it's just a one-way Street, take all you can, with the wealth flowing upward and upward, bestowing unlimited benefits on those who have the skill and the position to reap those rewards, yet leaving behind all those whose time and effort went into creating the means by which that wealth flowed into the bank accounts of those few people? Is equitability important? Does might make right? Says who? How is it okay that so many people have it so easy while so many, do not?
We are not all stupid. Not even most of us.
Just uninformed, underinformed, and intentionally so. BY DESIGN.
It's not the blind leading the blind, it's the sighted putting blindfolds on the rest of us, then tying our hands behind our backs so we can't take the blindfold off! That's the image that's closer to the truth, in my opinion. Always "in my opinion". Just one person's opinion.
It almost seems to me like there are people, even lots of people in this country who believe that they have some inherent right to own other people. Either outright, or pieces of them.
Musk is dodging questions about Social Security -- we shouldn't let him.
THAT'S JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG. WE ARE ALL PASSENGERS ON THE TITANIC. ARE THERE ENOUGH LIFEBOATS, THIS TIME AROUND?
Comment to Jun 27, 2025 Substack article by Matthew Rozsa about Social Security
Dear Mr. Rozsa,
I found it very interesting at the end of this article about social security, that you mentioned that you have autism. I look forward to reading your book about the perspective on our capitalist system from someone who has autism.
As I believe I do, also, have a form of limited autism, but I've never been diagnosed. I self-diagnosed (and also diagnosed my father, now deceased) after seeing the movie The Accountant, which I found highly valuable as well as entertaining on a number of levels that were personally enriching to me.
I found myself feeling frustrated repeatedly while reading your article. I kept wondering if you had used a transcription program to type out the words that were spoken/recorded in the interview you had, with Mr. O'Malley?
Poorly edited. At least.
Perhaps there should have been a follow-up interview with clarifying questions getting answered?
I felt like I was walking down the sidewalk and kept tripping over things that I hadn't seen in my way. Sentences that didn't make sense to me, were incomplete, or thoughts that were just left hanging without follow-up questioning.
Parts of it were excellent!
I'm glad I read it.
Other parts of it sounded like I was listening to Donald Trump and his incoherent word salad. Not as bad as that, but from the same salad bar, so to speak.
I wonder if you had anyone else read your article before you published it? A lot of it was bewildering to me, referencing things I didn't understand, or just saying things that made no sense to me. And I'm a pretty intelligent person. In my opinion.
In the future, if you want, perhaps you could send me an article before you publish it, and I could give you my feedback on it? I could mark it up. I was actually an editor in high school on the school paper, years ago. (And the photographer.) I learned how to mark up a piece of writing. I would need to brush up on that language.
I know that offer just came out of left field! You don't even know me. But it seems like you could lose a little help in the editing Department. My offer is genuine.
You wrote a very important article. It left me unsatisfied. Not only from the aspect that questions have yet to be answered by Mr. Musk, but it felt like there were big blank spots in the interview, or at least in the transcript. In your article. In my opinion.
After reading this article of yours, I have a lot of unanswered questions about social security. About Mr. Musk. About the legality and the propriety of what the whole Doge exercise was and is about. Lots of unanswered questions. The basis for a follow-up article?
Follow-up interview?
I would be glad to share my questions and thoughts with you, if you like. Like about how Social Security gets paid into? How much is a person entitled to receiving? Who established the $170,000 limit? Why was it set at that Mark? What's the rationale for NOT paying into Social Security beyond that Mark? What's the rationale FOR paying into security beyond that Mark?
Is there some inherent obligation that people who become wealthy OWE to society, to the society from which they gleaned so much wealth? Or is it okay that it's just a one-way Street, take all you can, with the wealth flowing upward and upward, bestowing unlimited benefits on those who have the skill and the position to reap those rewards, yet leaving behind all those whose time and effort went into creating the means by which that wealth flowed into the bank accounts of those few people? Is equitability important? Does might make right? Says who? How is it okay that so many people have it so easy while so many, do not?
We are not all stupid. Not even most of us.
Just uninformed, underinformed, and intentionally so. BY DESIGN.
It's not the blind leading the blind, it's the sighted putting blindfolds on the rest of us, then tying our hands behind our backs so we can't take the blindfold off! That's the image that's closer to the truth, in my opinion. Always "in my opinion". Just one person's opinion.
It almost seems to me like there are people, even lots of people in this country who believe that they have some inherent right to own other people. Either outright, or pieces of them.
Musk is dodging questions about Social Security -- we shouldn't let him.
THAT'S JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG. WE ARE ALL PASSENGERS ON THE TITANIC. ARE THERE ENOUGH LIFEBOATS, THIS TIME AROUND?
Jeff Merson
Fairfied, California
jm2025info@gmail.com