If you pay into social security for 20 years and then retire normally, your pension will very likely exceed ten thousand, but how far your purchasing power will go is hard to say. Still, you’ll be very satisfied. When you were working before, your monthly salary was only 3,000 to 5,000. And your retirement pension would exceed ten thousand—just hearing that number makes people feel good. See? Humans are exactly the kind of animal that’s easy to be fooled.