This country was once so resistant to any mandatory national ID that the Social Security Administration was only able to issue cards after assurances that the ID number not be used as such. That didn’t last long, and now we’re here.
And that’s the fundamental problem of the SSN. It’s a system designed not to be an ID, for a country that refuses to have an ID, that is being used as an ID despite it’s design, because it’s simply not viable to not have some form of an ID in a modern society.
This country was once so resistant to any mandatory national ID that the Social Security Administration was only able to issue cards after assurances that the ID number not be used as such. That didn’t last long, and now we’re here.
And that’s the fundamental problem of the SSN. It’s a system designed not to be an ID, for a country that refuses to have an ID, that is being used as an ID despite it’s design, because it’s simply not viable to not have some form of an ID in a modern society.