The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 1 year agoGood luck!fedia.ioimagemessage-square259fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareSterile_Technique@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoDepends 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.
minus-squarePiemanding@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoYeah, 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.
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.
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.