[labster]

SSN is not a Personal Code. It’s just a number. Add or subtract one, and you get the a valid number for the people in your home town who were born nearest to your birthdate. There are no checks and it’s very difficult to change. Some people in the USA would like a better system, but we can’t have it because national IDs and vaccines are tyranny.

[barsonme]

SSNs used as IDs is terrible, but it’s a little glib to say we don’t have national ID cards because they’re “tyranny.” There are very real problems, like discrimination and degradation of privacy: https://www.aclu.org/other/national-identification-cards-why...

[xorcist]

Easier put: You can't both have and not have a unique identifier for everyone.