Social Security Cards Explained
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The Social Security card and number explained.
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By onebigbug 2017-09-20
The whole situation is reasonably well explained by CGP Grey's video on Social Security Cards
By snuxoll 2017-09-29
CGPGrey did an excellent video on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus
By vec 2017-09-29
CGP Gray did a really good video[1] about this recently. The short version is that it's the least terrible mechanism presently available for uniquely identifying and disambiguating American citizens.
By Qub3d 2017-11-10
Here's a relevant pop science video by CGP Grey[0] that explains all the various problems with SSNs. My favorite part is the fact that until quite recently (2011) you could decrement or increment a given SSN by 1 and get another valid SSN, since they were sequential.
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By rtkwe 2017-09-20
There's an inbuilt distrust of the federal government built into the constitution itself and there's a constant drumbeat from the Republican side that the federal government is wasteful and out of touch with the needs of the individual states, often for practical purposes of devolving control of funding and policy to the state level where in general they have more control.
And as to why the SSN is the way it is, it's a usage of convenience. Before the SSN there was no unique identifier for every citizen then suddenly to keep track of the new entitlement and assistance programs during the great depression one was created and companies started using it as they wanted because it was the most convenient uuid available. There's a good recent CGP Grey video about the history of SSN and why it's such a silly mess today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus
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