The difficulty for the US is people seem to be against a Federal Government ID. India doesn't seem to have this stigma and hence rural India can solve this problem.

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micromacrofoot an hour ago | parent [-]

I don't think people are against it, we already have the social security identifiers as a government layer... it's just that no one in the government is willing to do it for free in a way that is accessible to everyone

	▲	dragonwriter 13 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> I don't think people are against it Every time national ID grts moderately serious discussion it is revealed very clearly that yes, the people are against it. RealID—which was simply national standaedization of state issued ID (when used for a variety of important purposes) had intense resistance, too—and its the closest policy to national ID that has passed. Social Security identifiers are not ID for the person, and anyway were adopted nearly a century ago at a moment of higher-than-current trust in the federal government.
	▲	abirch an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I think this is the horse shoe theory where the far left and right are against it. https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-conservative-and-li... I know people who don't have a social security number because their parents didn't want them to be tracked by the system.