[ComposedPattern]

> Someone being able to prove they are who they say they are is only dystopian to a vocal minority.

There are plenty of non-dystopian ways for people to do that. I was able to prove that I'm ComposedPattern by typing my password. For a higher-stakes identity, I might provide biometrics or show that my appearance matches a previously-provided photo. Those things are possible without involving the state. In fact, it might surprise you to learn that people got healthcare and paid for housing before the early 20th century! The government doesn't enable people to prove who they are. It forces people to use a single state-controlled identity for, at first, just government services... then finance, then healthcare, then transportation... and now there are bills being proposed everywhere to require government ID for "age verification" to use porn sites or "social media".

[hef19898]

One cpupd also use, and I think this might be a brilliant start-up idea, use a device, maybe a cube or so, to scan biometrics of people... Maybe in exchange for, I don't know, NFTs or so.

Or one could simply trust a democratically elected government with that instead...