[mschuster91]

> Next we all get a government id to pass on to private businesses.

Most of the rest of the world actually has government-issued identifiers and ID cards and they don't devolve into totalitarian dumpster holes. To make it even more absurd, the lack of a proper government-issued ID scheme in the US actually leads to problems only the US has, like people opening up credit lines and siphoning large sums of money with stolen SSN+name+DOB combos.

[ac2u]

I'm in the UK and we don't pass on said government ID to a plethora of private businesses so that they can turn around and hand it back to the government for tracking.

[mschuster91]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the UK is still part of the EU and thus subject to the EU KYC/AML laws requiring people who want to open a bank account/credit card to undergo identification with a government-issued ID?

[ac2u]

I'd imagine you're right, I don't know enough about that to say otherwise.

However, my point was a "plethora of privates businesses", not "all private businesses"