Damn, I just realised that liberalism is the "If the teacher doesn't show up by quarter past 9, we're legally allowed to leave." of political ideologies.

So, let me see if I'm understanding it right...

A bunch of outdated systems = bad

A single outdated system = good

Yeah?

Because what happens in a few decades when that single all encompassing database gets old? Or the hardware fails? Or some security flaw is found, software or hardware side? Everything was rolled up into one singular spot, so any security breech gets everything now, not just some things.

Any attempt to fix the issues will then have to be weighed against having 100% of a person's ability to do anything being broken until the issues are resolved.

So what do we think is going to happen? I'm pretty confident that any security issue will just be swept under the rug for some future politician to deal with leaving everybody's vital information completely open to deletion, modification or copying.

And since its all one record now, there won't be any other independent systems that could be used to verify you still exist or provide essential services

Think about what happens now, when the Social Security Administration's database has wrong data in it and thinks you're dead? Not great things. But the other databases might not immediately turn off your existence. Putting everything in one place, in one record, and THEN having the system decide you have died... well... you're turbo fucked. Everything gets turned off all at once. Driver's license? Hope you don't get your ID checked by a cop, because now you're using fraudulent ID and impersonating a dead person. Social Security benefits? Turned off immediately. Medicaid, medicare, or just regular insurance? Well, you're 'dead' so why would a dead person need to be on the active rolls? Why would a dead person be using a credit card? Must be identity theft, lock all the accounts... probably lock all bank accounts associated with those credit cards for good measure, for safety.