Businessman shares unusual math-based plan to shrink government jobs
A tech entrepreneur proposes an odd-even number system to cut federal workforce by three-quarters. His quick-math solution relies on social security digits to determine who stays and who goes
Vivek Ramaswamy a tech-savvy businessman has come up with an eyebrow-raising method to trim down the federal workforce thats based on simple math rules (which he shared during a podcast chat couple months ago)
His straight-forward plan works like this: first workers whose social security numbers end in odd digits would lose their jobs while even-number holders stay put; this step alone would cut the workforce in half. For the remaining staff – those with even-ending numbers – a second round of cuts would happen based on whether their social security numbers start with odd or even digits
Hereʼs the breakdown of his proposed cuts:
- First cut: odd-ending numbers out‚ even-ending stay
- Second cut: odd-starting numbers out even-starting stay
- Final result: only quarter of workers remain
The tech-entrepreneurs method – which he presents as a no-nonsense solution to government downsizing – relies on nothing more than basic number patterns to determine peoples employment status
His approach suggests a preference for quick-fix solutions that might look good on paper but dont account for real-world complexity
