[sausagefeet]

> So to summarize, I think what bothers me is that the only possible way to arrive at what the parent comment suggests would be to avoid participating or contributing to any of these essential traits of civil society

I don't think this take is very realistic. Most people want to live in a home with a static address. They aren't doing it because they need an address to participate in society. However, there are people who are more nomadic and the physical address requirement for some things can be a challenge.

[Someone]

I concur that most people want to live in a home, but except for the fact that’s it’s engrained in the legal system, what do you really need a static address for nowadays? I could give suppliers lat/long coordinates of my front door or the route to my house, and my physical mailbox gets more spam than mail I really need, and the latter also could be delivered via email.

A static email address is much more useful (or, actually, a static digital identity)

[nine_k]

How soon until we end up with government-mandated email addresses? Email is already a required field in many governmental forms in the US.

[JadeNB]

> Most people want to live in a home with a static address.

Statistics can address what most people do do, but how can one possibly speak to what most people want to do? (Even if one could, I can believe that people's preferences are much less absolute than they are shaped by existing affordances; maybe some people who currently want one thing would change their mind if obstacles to the alternative were removed.)