The Social Security System is Deeply Flawed

I decided to write about something today that has troubled me for a long time. The Social Security System in the US does not work for disabled people, and I never hear anyone say anything about that in public discourse.  It is hard to get on the disabled roster, we all know that, but there is a greater flaw, in my opinion. Let's take two hypothetical people, Mr. Ant and Mr. Hopper. Mr. Hopper gets sick at the age of 35, with gudaufle disease.  Don't look that up.  He freaks out totally, says Ohnoohnoohnohno!  So he immediately applies for SSDI, aka Social Security Disability Insurance.  He hires a lawyer, because he Makes Good Money, and gets it eventually. Mr. Ant also gets the same disease at 35, but says IthinkIcanIthinkIcanIthinkIcan.  He struggles, he suffers, but he goes on working, gets deathly ill, loses his job.  He recovers after a long convalescence, goes back to work at a less demanding job, gets sick again and again for years and years.  Finally he applies, eventually gets SSDI. Mr. Hopper gets his checks based on his sterling employment history and his makinggoodmoneyjob salary. Mr. Ant gets his checks based on a shameful history of inconsistent employment and notmakingsuchgoodmoney jobs, many of them.  Mr. Hopper gets much, much more money than Mr. Ant, who fought the good fight for many years.  Mr. Hopper lives happily ever after, stress free and mildly sick.  Mr. Ant winds up homeless, dies of pneumonia from being totally stressed and living in a packing crate.  Am I the only person in America that sees a problem in this story?