Here is a link to my other post where I expressed my thoughts much better, if you are interested you can take a look – https://lemmy.world/post/37101088
Here is a link to my other post where I expressed my thoughts much better, if you are interested you can take a look – https://lemmy.world/post/37101088
I’m not saying it should be done away with entirely, I’m saying I don’t quite like it.
It’s varying degrees of all of these things depending on the situation. Idgaf if 18 year olds want to drink and when I was in a country where I didn’t get carded buying beer it was kinda nice. Then there are environments like sex shops where I very much don’t want minors there, but at the same time anonymity or pseudonymity would be quite preferable to giving my government ID. And I’m seeing more and more places scan IDs rather than just look at them. And while today idgaf if the bartender or grocery clerk knows I drink, I’m not quite certain I’m comfortable with the government knowing it, and in some states I’d probably be uncomfortable with the government knowing such things about me.
The increases in age restrictions and need to present ID to do more and more is ceding the right to anonymity, pseudonymity, and to keep the government out of your affairs. It may or may not be worth it, but I keep seeing people acting like we aren’t giving these things up when we do this.
To some extent losing anonymity is the cost of living in a society. Owning property, the entire financial system, the entire legal system, huge portions of civizilation depend on reliable identification.
Scanning cards is fine with me as long as it’s just a validity check but I can’t say I trust Kroger to not build a database of spending habits, for example, so to some extent I share your discomfort. But I think it’s a small concern compared to the way we use cards to pay for everything now. Cash is the king of anonymous consumption.