He did not have a bad idea, but bad way to put it across. Read again, the idea was to have the info on the microchip. This means it is only accessible for relevant government agencies.

It is NOT a bad way to keep the statistics and know what your people are earning, even more so in a country where hardly anyone pays tax or has any office to register their skills or be licenced

Come on, you can combine static and dynamic data, just in case,you need them, without having them on ID cards.

What did my mother used to say to me? Something about thinking before opening my mouth? Hopefully before reaching adulthood I would have grasp this.

An interesting aspect of working in socialist Portugal in the 90's was that by law, once a year, everyone's official salary from CEO to cleaner, had to be posted for all in that company to view. Quite a crowd round the noticeboard that day! Great for transparency, totally inappropriate for a society such as Thailand's