A good portion of the United States is against any sort of identification system in general. It’s why voting is so complicated. Some kind open income system in unfathomable to the vast majority of Americans.
Which is pretty ridiculous given that everyone needs a social security number, and then if you ever want to rent or buy a place you need a credit score. Then if you want to travel abroad you need a passport. And if you use google, social media or a cell phone, or pretty much just anything online, you are going to get tracked. All of these systems and organizations have already identified you, or they’ll easily do it when needed.
Not having a universal-nation-wide identification system only makes it worse for everyone.
Well, a milder version anyways. Look-up is only country level, not state, and what changes is generally the pop-up rather than the privacy policy. But the tools are already in the marketplace.
When Ford motors started cars already existed, when Facebook started social networks already existed, when Google started search engines already existed, etc.
In my opinion, getting demotivated for not being the first or being “the one” that came up with the idea prevents way too many people from starting their own thing.
In the end, execution and adoption are what really matters. In general is better to copy something and improve on it than trying to invent something completely new.