The US government has no trouble killing or jailing people, even with only a half functioning id system. In fact I have no idea how it's acceptable to give everybody a social security number and then claim it is but a secret and a public identifier. It's the worst of both worlds.

Now without google account, you're locked out of a big chunk of the android world. I recently joined a group using hangouts, google account required. School and docter and a few others started to use ms teams since corona, requiring a microsoft account. I don't have facebook yet, but it costs me a lot of mini second hand sales in the neighbourhood. There are other such cases.

I could try to re-educate every one of these groups, but after a full time job and a family, that's not how I want to spend my time. There's a short amount of time to spend in life, and a worthy cause on every street corner. Feel free to mock me for not choosing these particular hills to die on.

I'd rather have consumer protection and/or anticompetitive action. The governement can spend some of my tax money on it, as it's their job. Meanwhile I'll use my id to log in at my healthcare provider, knowing that if they are stupid enough to sell that data, they get a backlash from the public opinion and some very unwanted attention of the courts.