I mentioned this in the PPP thread, but wanted everyone's opinion. How do you feel about Multi Level Marketing? I've always been strongly against them.
First off, if you have a rehearsed speech for how you're totally not a pyramid scam, I have news for you, it's a pyramid scam. You're not gonna be retired by the age of 35 or whatever the person who recruited you told you. This miracle snake oil, is just overpriced protein shakes that you're convinced to buy in bulk that you'll never sell.
They brag all the time. "I'm leading the successful life! Not only do I own my own buisness, I just got promoted to Double Secret Bronze Eagle." How tf you get promoted at a company you claim to own?
But my biggest complaint is the cult like mindset people have. The lectures, and magazines they read and listen to, all by the founder of the company, who the literally worship. And anybody who tries warning them they're wasting their money is looked at as a negative influence in their life. They become brainwashed over this this and turn into zombies for their company. Sad really. Lost many a friend to these companies. One who was a successful geologist in the oil industry. Lost his job, and bought it hook, line and sinker. He was living off his life savings. Finally asked him, out of concern for him, his wife, and two kids, what his plan is if he doesn't make it. "I just need the will and determination. Things aren't going well now, but people saying no is a good thing because it makes the product more exclusive. I'm gonna be a millionaire soon, too bad you don't want in." This was six months in, and he'd made $50 so far, which is a drop in the bucket of his $2,000+ initial investment, Told me he had six months of savings to live off of, but was never gonna work in the corporate world again.