AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

I read the news today that my social security number (SSN), my birth date and school records were probably comprimised when a hacker broke into the UCLA student database. As a socialist it sent me into a mild depression because I feel that the only use I have to the modern proletariat is fodder for monitary scams. The whole "identity theft" problem is so much more than just another thing to be paranoid about. First of all it tells me that Marx was so very wrong - in the purest of capitalist societies, the bourgeois do not take advantage of the proletariat - the proletariat takes advantage of the proletariat. Secondly it is something that signals to me that human beings are being objectified into a set of numbers by other human beings in order to take advange of them. I'm used to being treated like a number though my job, my health care and my insurance. But I had nievely hoped that the "random person on the street" would want to know about me and not about the potential numbers in my bank account. It's tragic but when I die, I will most likely be put into a plot of land that also has a serial number.