Using your Social Security number for identification is
The Alex Jones crowd thinks this will ultimately lead to enslavement.
Albanians are issued a hack-resistant, digital national ID card called the Letërnjoftimi. It comes with a cool hologram and a biometric chip that can be read wirelessly.
At the bottom of some drawer in my New York City apartment, I have a rotting white cardboard rectangle that shows my nine-digit Social Security number in a typeface that looks like it came from a Smith-Corona typewriter. It’s supposed to serve as my all-purpose identifier for life.
So, yeah, when it comes to an ID that serves as a gateway to modern economic activity, the U.S. is 80 years behind a nation where nearly half the population is employed growing olives and figs.
The federal released 143 million SSNs into the wild, like spores wafting off a hilltop of dandelions.
