I think by "change how you use identity" I mean a lifestyle change not a minor procedure change.
As per your example, most people with no identity issues tend to walk into the car dealer and buy a car with a loan and the dealer runs a credit check on them before they even get to test drive (happened to me...). I agree, walking in with a duffel bag of cash is not going to work.
On the other hand, why not buy a "decent" project car for cash from a private citizen, then spend cash at car shops upgrading it to a quite nice hot rod?
Or the meta question of, why buy a car? If a decent fake ID is so expensive, and the cost of detection is so high, why not just pay a cabbie or live in NYC and not own a car?
The startup lesson here, if any, is optimize the big picture, then once that is done, work on optimizing the little picture stuff.
If the cost, both financial and risk, of having a car while remaining private is very high, then don't have a car.
On the other hand, as far as I know, fake profiles on facebook are no big deal, just put enough up not to be suspiciously empty. One important datapoint is I'm not operating under a fake ID, and I had a FB account years and years ago back when it was new and just opened to the public, it was a total waste of time, so after awhile I deleted it, and absolutely no one cares. Its right up there with being one of those guys who doesn't own a TV and tells everyone about it all the time. So a guy operating under a fake identity has at least one anecdote that at least one guy with a real identity found not having a FB account to be completely totally unimportant to modern living.
People who discuss living outside the identity system never seem to mention our explosively growing illegal population. This stuff has all been figured out, if you're willing to learn spanish and be friendly. If a hispanic looking dude can get away with calling himself an illegal, and everything turns out OK, then I can probably call myself a German illegal, or whatever. Germans have pretty good records and might cooperate with the locals... How about my becoming a south african illegal? That would probably work.
As per your example, most people with no identity issues tend to walk into the car dealer and buy a car with a loan and the dealer runs a credit check on them before they even get to test drive (happened to me...). I agree, walking in with a duffel bag of cash is not going to work.
On the other hand, why not buy a "decent" project car for cash from a private citizen, then spend cash at car shops upgrading it to a quite nice hot rod?
Or the meta question of, why buy a car? If a decent fake ID is so expensive, and the cost of detection is so high, why not just pay a cabbie or live in NYC and not own a car?
The startup lesson here, if any, is optimize the big picture, then once that is done, work on optimizing the little picture stuff.
If the cost, both financial and risk, of having a car while remaining private is very high, then don't have a car.
On the other hand, as far as I know, fake profiles on facebook are no big deal, just put enough up not to be suspiciously empty. One important datapoint is I'm not operating under a fake ID, and I had a FB account years and years ago back when it was new and just opened to the public, it was a total waste of time, so after awhile I deleted it, and absolutely no one cares. Its right up there with being one of those guys who doesn't own a TV and tells everyone about it all the time. So a guy operating under a fake identity has at least one anecdote that at least one guy with a real identity found not having a FB account to be completely totally unimportant to modern living.
People who discuss living outside the identity system never seem to mention our explosively growing illegal population. This stuff has all been figured out, if you're willing to learn spanish and be friendly. If a hispanic looking dude can get away with calling himself an illegal, and everything turns out OK, then I can probably call myself a German illegal, or whatever. Germans have pretty good records and might cooperate with the locals... How about my becoming a south african illegal? That would probably work.