Comment on What happens when the US runs out of SSNs?
paddirn@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
Plenty of time to put off thinking about it until the last possible minute.
Archer@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
An American tradition
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks 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.