The Gematria Gambling Contract

A primary issue in Minneapolis and other ICE…hotspots  is the training and efficiency of the personnel recruited.  The employer-employee relationship is always tense.  What is the right amount to pay and be fair?  Pay too much, profits shrink.  Pay too little, turnover and morale issues also can make profits shrink.  When the CEO has budget led themselves that new underground bunker to survive an upcoming economic Armageddon, how much can you promise to pay and then not pay and get away with it?

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A big bonus is a wonderful recruitment tactic.  But even a well intentioned bonus plan can go astray.  If it’s a retirement bonus, it’s baked into the format that you will be there a long time.  A reward for making your job you are passionate about a career with a single employer.  And there’s a loooooonnnggg period of time where stuff can go wrong.  Like getting laid off just before the bonus kicks in.  On purpose, even.

The signing bonus - up to $50,000 for ICE agents is also good on paper.  I’ll let you Google the details yourself if you haven’t heard.  This is yet another topic that has lots of claims and counterclaims going around that it’s difficult to quickly assess if the source is credible or just making shit up to muddy the waters with propaganda.  These comments are inspired by recent activity regarding the shutdown and how as federal employees and being designated as essential workers, ICE is required to work through it without pay.  Presumably, back pay will be in full.  But without a rainy day fund to cover the unpaid period and math dictating that some percentage of these agents really need the money NOW, that’s stressful to them.

But fear not, because I’ve also been inspired by my words about making shit up.  Another opportunity to be snarky about gematria.  One of my favorite accounts on social media practices the loonier version of conspiracy gematria, and there’s a 100% guarantee about the <sarcasm font> most solid form of income ever </sarcasm font> - the lottery.

First, a recent post about news tells you all you need to know about what type of gematria to expect:

If the names of the ciphers, Illuminati Reverse and Agrippa Reduction, don’t clue you in right away that somebody is trying desperately to look edgier and cooler than they really are, the Gematrinator calculator seals the deal.  These are custom ciphers, created by the “decoder” since the 31 existing ciphers as of today weren’t enough choices to force a match to the narrative.

Lately the account has been posting some news stories that relate to modern times.  But there’s no doubt the financial hook is the lottery.

Astronomy, religious lingo, Freemasons, date numerology.  All classic topics to discuss for the online gematria grifter.  And the numbers themselves are completely irrelevant.  Lots of stuff throughout history has happened on December 24th.  And it is literally 100% certain that any one or two digit Powerball number will occur a jillion times on every day.

This isn’t to say that you will never win money on the lottery using this as a method.  It’s theoretically possible you may win the jackpot.  That doesn’t change that the method chosen is presented as a magical get rich quick idea when you’re essentially picking at random.  And the current gambling epidemic is a symptom of how prevalent quick monetary fixes are and how they can turn out to be not what they’re promoted as.

There’s not just the 37% federal tax in there.  The math shows payouts at 28.8%.  Mathematical expertise is not generally associated with the gambling addict.  Tell them it’s 1.6 billion, they think 1.6 billion not 28.8% of 1.6 billion.

Reminder 1 of 2:  The following math is not “fair” while comparing lottery payouts to employment gross versus net pay.  It’s just an example.

Reminder 2 of 2:  I make no claims to the accuracy of some following pieces to the example.  I’ve read that the $50,000 ICE bonus is heavily taxed, and that instead of all up front it’s in 5 annual installments.

No imagine you think you’re getting $50k up front.  It’s not unlikely you’re used to an effective tax rate that would deduct $6,000 to $7,000 from that.  $43,000 is still a really tidy sum, right?

Well if taxed at the same energy level as the lottery that’s

$50,000 x 28.8% =$14,400

And spread out over 5 years

$14,400/5 =$2,880

Doesn’t sound quite so magical anymore, doesn’t it?  And that’s before you even start sweating it out on if you’re ever going to get paid at all.

This is an “adults are needed in the room” issue instead of just some random gematria user in the room issue.  There are only three certainties in life.  Death.  Taxes.  And someone using wild claims about gematria is up to no good.