Today I received a notice in the mail saying it was the "final notice". It indicated I could get $468K in COVID relief funds for a business since my restaurant with 18 employees qualifies and there is a per employee amount. There are of course a lot of problems with that unless you like inflation continually going nuts. Yet the biggest problem for me is I don't own a restaurant. I have never owned a restaurant. I do have an LLC for video game development but it technically has no employees and only has my eldest son and myself as shareholders.
How many people will see something like this, get greedy, think they are sticking it to the government and go to the website and start going through that process?
I decided to write about this in a post when I realized that might actually be the point. Entrapment.
If I had responded to that at all with interest in those funds they could then come after me for fraud or attempt to commit fraud.
Why did I receive this?
Is this an easy way to use lawfare to take out people that speak disfavorable information online? How the hell did I get on this list? Why did I receive this?
How many other people are receiving it?
Now another possibility is it is just a phishing scam for con artists trying to get access to my bank accounts. That won't help them much as I don't tend to have much in my bank. I put my money into things. Property. Tools. Things I can use and that might have value if I ever have to sell them, trade them, etc.
With inflation the way it is I don't see much point in "Savings Accounts" and things like that since the purchasing power of what you have in your savings account is declining not increasing. Inflation is way higher than the percent of return you get from a savings account.
Even on a good year where inflation is only 3% that is still higher than banks have been giving on savings accounts. This means your savings are being stealth taxed from value. You see an increasing number yet the things you would buy with that number are getting expensive at a rate that means in a year you actually can buy less with that savings than you could the year before. You didn't save anything. You lost.
Anyway look out for scams in the mail, email, etc.
If you are speaking against the criminal oligarchs controlling things also look for ways they can entrap you easily.
Now there is an easy way to avoid falling for entrapment like this potential piece of mail I received...
The Golden Rule...
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
They gave me a chance to get money for something that didn't exist. If I gave people a chance to get money for something they didn't do would I want them to take the money anyway? No.
So as much as I despise these crooks and know our government and most institutions are incredibly corrupted that doesn't mean I should lash out and screw them over...
That is not the golden rule.
It is also how you get into trouble. It is how you also slide down that slippery slope to becoming like them.
It is easy to choose evil.
It is difficult to fight evil.
We need to quit being so quick to choose the easy paths.