Yeah. Like, you read history and think “no, the medieval chronicler was trying to make a didactical point, it didn’t actually-” but no, it kinda just happens sometimes…

And that’s the fundamental problem of the SSN. It’s a system designed not to be an ID, for a country that refuses to have an ID, that is being used as an ID despite it’s design, because it’s simply not viable to not have some form of an ID in a modern society.