• @Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    08 months ago

    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
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      08 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.