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It is the same thing that happened with US Social Security Numbers, which were originally just tracking numbers for that one purpose that were coopted by capitalists and treated like something special.
And at 9 digits, it has only 100 million possible combos. Despite there being 3x that many people in the USA.
999,999,999
It's 1B. You're forgetting zero.