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Depends if you have the right Aryan eye color when the ethnic cleansing squads come round or not.
In that scenario I think the freedom was lost when the ethnic cleansing squads were formed, not when the database became available.
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It is pretty annoying -- to sign on to the IRS's system you pretty much need an existing debt to some private company (student loans [but not NELNET!], credit card, mortgage, etc). Apparently we can't have a government run identification service so we have to hack one out of random information from private companies.
SSNs are issued at birth, not at first draw of credit.
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> If you want pay transparency to fight pay inequality, then anonymized pay based on role / job title should suffice. It does not suffice. We mostly do have this data in the US and wealth inequality keeps deepening. The only purpose of the salary taboo is to keep rich people rich.
The really rich are not so because of the salaries they draw, if any. Salary transparency can help individuals by revealing their unfair pay relative to their peers. Correcting such injustices are not big money overall, they're not going to create meaningful wealth distribution, it's not going to make the rich noticeably less rich.