The Picard Maneuver to Funny@sh.itjust.works • 8 months agoGood luck!fedia.ioimagemessage-square258fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
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minus-square@Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish0•8 months 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-square@Piemanding@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink0•8 months 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.