16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
In addition to the sky faerie grifters, the anti-rationality mentats categorically oppose allowing government to govern.
RFID: Sign of the (End) Times? https://www.wired.com/2006/06/rfid-sign-of-the-end-times/
On social media, vaccine misinformation mixes with extreme faith https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/02/16/covid-v...
So, does Germany not have ID fraud anymore?
All of this fraud is an extension of that deregulation, which leaves people exposed. Frankly a slower moving economy is probably BETTER in the long run, but it’s all numbers and figures nowadays. People are reduced to an SSN number.
But you know that. It must be hard to be so aggrieved.
Why is obtaining an ID "intentionally designed" this way. Don't you need to get a driving license to drive? A passport to re-enter the country? Do disadvantaged groups not get driving licenses?
Because when you make the places to get them few in number and difficult to get to, then make the lines to get them very long, you create hurdles for people who have jobs that are not overly friendly towards long or variable absences.
This is intentional, much as many places in the United States have reorganized voting locations to themselves be difficult to get to. Disenfranchisement is intentional.
> Don't you need to get a driving license to drive? ... Do disadvantaged groups not get driving licenses?
Many in the United States live in urban areas where they're not required and where they may not be economically feasible. (These folks tend not to vote for the people who are pushing ID requirements.)
> A passport to re-enter the country?
The set of Americans who never have cause to leave the country is very large.
The best solution would be if the US introduced mandatory passports or other forms of ID cards with smartcard capability, similar to the German Personalausweis. It has a secure cryptoprocessor with key vault, meaning it can be used to sign documents (if the bureaucracy to get a signature CA wouldn't be completely stuck for years now, SIGH), but especially companies willing to use authenticated data can fetch them securely over any NFC enabled terminal. Quite ingenuous.
This would entirely kill ID fraud at the source. The problem only seems to be an aversion in some parts of the US population against ID documents.