Historical fascism wasn’t like that: big companies were watched more closely. Each director board of a large company needed to have at least one representative of the fascist party.

Of course, the question is what you do with that power. And there probably fascism fails the “evil test”

But in principle I think that business (especially big business) should serve the common interest (represented by the state) and not the other way around

Added an edit given it wasn’t clear

I would take the last one… but it seems more the contrary these days

Edit: probably it wasn’t clear: I meant the business part. People are not influencing the state evidently

Not US but the answer is simple.

IDs are a taboo in the US (otherwise the government would interfere with your privacy or something).

So they have

• Passports (too bad that a small percentage of population has)
• Birth certificates (yeah, super secure /s, in practice just a way to bar people that changed their name/surname)
• Driving licenses/liquor id: these are the closest to IDs but technically they are not ID. The proposed changes are exactly for stopping accepting driving licenses
• SSN: don’t even make me started

Ok this would be at inference time (solving the challenges) as opposed to the training that was described in the article.

This makes things more believable

Oooorrrr there is more to the story