Post AQ0Kwhd1W2rLq2woAy by yzapre@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AQ0IQVOfG1JIjBkbJo by oklomsy@fedi.cheeseland.xyz
       2022-11-26T18:23:50.951669Z
       
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       I am frankly convinced that it is impossible to be anonymous or even pseudonymous, and also live a normal life. Not just because most people use walled-garden social networking but also to live a normal life you need to have a job, and to earn money from a regular job you would have to have a bank account or a credit card number because businesses no longer pay in cash.You can circumvent this by getting a remote job, one where you do not enter into a physical office but one where you simply do work and get paid for that work. Most of these "remote jobs" are looking for blockchain developers which makes sense because blockchain developers like to stay anonymous whenever possible.I guess to live an anonymous/pseudonymous life, I might have to become a blockchain developer, which is just... yuck!
       
 (DIR) Post #AQ0J1rLuadEdXKH6ZM by AntsLoveSoda@hachyderm.io
       2022-11-26T18:28:34Z
       
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       @oklomsy This isn't a bug, it's a feature! 🙄Also, this is why the idea of "social credit" scares the crap out of me: everything, to even function, is so intertwined that it's all too easy for the overall system to shut one out.It's common in China now, and heck we're seeing versions of it in Western cultures.
       
 (DIR) Post #AQ0JHAwa21RgdrjHyi by oklomsy@fedi.cheeseland.xyz
       2022-11-26T18:33:21.980016Z
       
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       @AntsLoveSoda Nordic countries, are advanced in so many ways including at destroying the privacy of their citizens. Denmark has a national ID system, many services, agencies and individuals use this number to identify people which is okay but they use it so heavily, just a month ago I had to get a bus card to save money in my daily commute, they asked for so much personal information, even when the whole purpose of the card is to pay for rides and most of that information was not relevant!
       
 (DIR) Post #AQ0K6rxnqRmKplx1Lk by AntsLoveSoda@hachyderm.io
       2022-11-26T18:39:45Z
       
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       @oklomsy That is literally nauseating. We deal with that kind of stuff here in the US, just in weirder, round-about ways (for example, strikes to credit reports, then strikes to bank accounts; services that perform unnecessary or extremely invasive background checks, and certain public systems that are WAY too open about people's lives, which get picked up by Google, which sticks to where anyone can find it...)
       
 (DIR) Post #AQ0Kwhd1W2rLq2woAy by yzapre@mastodon.social
       2022-11-26T18:51:56Z
       
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       @oklomsy welcome to the digital age