Very interesting

"The future is now, old man!"

My guy discovered what Agile really means

What a peculiar take, the whole of it

I think "The state won’t give up its monopoly on identity" is the most violently american sentence I read in the whole year.

together with "I'm only traveling" and appearing on some YT video on roadstops with predictable but hilarious consequences

I am who they say I am.

Who gets to choose the they?

If you choose to request and receive "their" services then "they" get a say. Thus, if you use stuff like roads, schools, ambulances, airports, insurances, or the police, then you are part of the society. Of course you can retreat in a forest and use none of those, then you have a valid point in rejecting central authorities, but only then.

Now I need to have an ID to bike down a road, ride a bus, report a crime?

Do they also have a right to build a database of every time I utilize my ID? What's stopping them?

I think there is already a large group of people who would prefer to live in a society without ceding that much power to a centralized authority.

Any ID system that isn't just totally run be each individual themselves is ceding power to someone.

Whether you need an ID to do certain things or are tracked doing certain things is also a very separate issue.

What is stopping "them" is that "them" in liberal democracies (as a technical term) isn't free to do whatever they please nor beyond control/recall/etc. If you want to live in a society, there will be rules, implicit or explicit, on how people interact, delegate, etc.

It’s a reference to Weber.

I understand its shallow of me, but I stopped reading exactly here.

Your government needs to know who everybody is. That means illegal immigrants can't get drivers licenses, and that's kind of the point.

> Even IDs for undocumented people (such as Californian AB 60 driver’s licenses) require a foreign passport, national ID card or birth certificate, and can’t help people who have no state-issued identity documents at all.

> This existing ID system is harmful, inaccessible and a single point of failure

Keep in mind: this period does end at some point. All the best!

Same for me.

Thank you.

)))))