If you do everything right, and don’t fuck anything up, it just works 💁‍♂️

This might be pro-potato propaganda from big potato to drive up demand after the potato market crash in Europe. I’m gonna make mash with mine.

That’s what I was wondering as someone from another country. The answer is ofc because Americans are dumb af and constantly shooting themselves in the foot when fighting against “big” government. SSNs were supposed to be for just one thing, but because there weren’t unique identifiers for other things (healthcare id, tax id, welfare id, etc) every one just started using SSNs as a kind of defacto national id when it was never designed to be that. SSNs lack biometrics like photo verification for example.

To fix this they either have to actually create a more robust national id, or break it up into a bunch of area specific ids. Americans would likely complain about either option. My country does the latter, I imagine a lot of other countries do so as well.