Most European countries give their permanent residents a social security number. In Sweden, however, this so called “personal number” takes on a special significance. It’s the ultimate means of identification. All government offices, banks, shops etc. use it to look up and verify your details in the national database. This also means that the only [...]
Filed under: Politics, WtF by Ralf Damaschke | Social tagging: bureaucracy > Sweden
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Last weekend, I was walking around St Albans, right by the abbey and ran into a bum. Not the drunk or the crazy-eyed amphetamine type, but the down-on-his-luck type. Alright, he might have been slightly crazy-eyed, but not in that speed-freak kind of way. Anyway, he asked me whether I knew whether there was a [...]
Filed under: Politics, WtF by Philip Hölzenspies | Social tagging: humanism
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