Comment on What happens when the US runs out of SSNs?
paddirn@lemmy.world 11 months agoSSN’s are slso given out to immigrants as well though, so that’s a whole other population of people outside of just natural born citizens to account for. You’d slso have to account for. The US awards around one million green cards annually, though I don’t know what the historical numbers are.
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Oh snap! Thanks for bringing that up. Adding another million each year, and assuming a constant green card rate since before WW2(!), adds another 88 million spent SSNs. With an additional million green cards annually, that makes the calculation (1000-510.3-88)x10^6 SSNs /4.695 x 10^6 SSNs/year = 85.6 years.
So the US has until about the end of the century to figure it out.
paddirn@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Plenty of time to put off thinking about it until the last possible minute.
Archer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
An American tradition
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Meh, why do today what you can put off until it’s someone else’s problem?
It’s not even like you leave for future you, that guy hates you already^1 you leave it for someone entirely unknown. They won’t even know who to blame.
^1 Shayne Smith banned from karate reference.