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submitted 8 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Depends on who you ask. For millennials and younger, it means paying lots of money into a service that will be dissolved before we get to tap into it.

It's also a number that's supposed to be kept secure or something, but applying for pretty much anything requires you to provide it.

[–] Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah, it became a sort of federal identification since the US government didn't want to make a federal ID and now we are stuck with a much more inferior system than if they just did anything. Since everyone got a SS card it became the de facto ID.