#multilevelmarketing — Public Fediverse posts

🕵️‍♂️ Is "The Gentlemen" the latest Bond movie or a #cybercrime syndicate recruiting like a multi-level marketing scheme? 🤔 Apparently, offering wannabe criminals 90% of the loot is the new talent acquisition strategy, because who needs LinkedIn when you've got ransomware! 😂 #CyberCrimeComedy
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/who-runs-the-ransomware-group-the-gentlemen/ #MultiLevelMarketing #BondMovie #TalentAcquisition #Ransomware #HackerNews #ngated

🕵️‍♂️ Is "The Gentlemen" the latest Bond movie or a #cybercrime syndicate recruiting like a multi-level marketing scheme? 🤔 Apparently, offering wannabe criminals 90% of the loot is the new talent acquisition strategy, because who needs LinkedIn when you've got ransomware! 😂 #CyberCrimeComedy
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/who-runs-the-ransomware-group-the-gentlemen/ #MultiLevelMarketing #BondMovie #TalentAcquisition #Ransomware #HackerNews #ngated

🕵️‍♂️ Is "The Gentlemen" the latest Bond movie or a #cybercrime syndicate recruiting like a multi-level marketing scheme? 🤔 Apparently, offering wannabe criminals 90% of the loot is the new talent acquisition strategy, because who needs LinkedIn when you've got ransomware! 😂 #CyberCrimeComedy
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/who-runs-the-ransomware-group-the-gentlemen/ #MultiLevelMarketing #BondMovie #TalentAcquisition #Ransomware #HackerNews #ngated

🕵️‍♂️ Is "The Gentlemen" the latest Bond movie or a #cybercrime syndicate recruiting like a multi-level marketing scheme? 🤔 Apparently, offering wannabe criminals 90% of the loot is the new talent acquisition strategy, because who needs LinkedIn when you've got ransomware! 😂 #CyberCrimeComedy
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/who-runs-the-ransomware-group-the-gentlemen/ #MultiLevelMarketing #BondMovie #TalentAcquisition #Ransomware #HackerNews #ngated

This septuagenarian's favorite TV "channel" is Youtube, and my favorite "show" is Hannah Alonzo. She primarily creates 'anti-mlm' content, and is the conscience of a generation. I love her. #hannahalonzo #hannah #antimlm #mlm #antimultilevelmarketing #multilevelmarketing #youtube #influencer #influencers #youtubecontent #streaming #streamingservices #conscience #scam #scamming #scammer #scammers #septuagenarian #septuagenarians

This septuagenarian's favorite TV "channel" is Youtube, and my favorite "show" is Hannah Alonzo. She primarily creates 'anti-mlm' content, and is the conscience of a generation. I love her. #hannahalonzo #hannah #antimlm #mlm #antimultilevelmarketing #multilevelmarketing #youtube #influencer #influencers #youtubecontent #streaming #streamingservices #conscience #scam #scamming #scammer #scammers #septuagenarian #septuagenarians

This septuagenarian's favorite TV "channel" is Youtube, and my favorite "show" is Hannah Alonzo. She primarily creates 'anti-mlm' content, and is the conscience of a generation. I love her. #hannahalonzo #hannah #antimlm #mlm #antimultilevelmarketing #multilevelmarketing #youtube #influencer #influencers #youtubecontent #streaming #streamingservices #conscience #scam #scamming #scammer #scammers #septuagenarian #septuagenarians

This septuagenarian's favorite TV "channel" is Youtube, and my favorite "show" is Hannah Alonzo. She primarily creates 'anti-mlm' content, and is the conscience of a generation. I love her. #hannahalonzo #hannah #antimlm #mlm #antimultilevelmarketing #multilevelmarketing #youtube #influencer #influencers #youtubecontent #streaming #streamingservices #conscience #scam #scamming #scammer #scammers #septuagenarian #septuagenarians

📰 | Märchen, Lügen, Marketing? Wie seriös ist MLM?

Wie unterscheidet man seriöse von problematischen #MLM-Angeboten? Ein Ratgeber vom Schweizer Konsumentenschutz @Konsumentenschutz klärt auf.

https://skeptix.org/2026/01/21/maerchen-luegen-marketing-wie-serioes-ist-mlm/

#multilevelmarketing #schweiz #konsumentenschutz #schneeballsystem #SkeptixBlog

📰 | Märchen, Lügen, Marketing? Wie seriös ist MLM?

Wie unterscheidet man seriöse von problematischen #MLM-Angeboten? Ein Ratgeber vom Schweizer Konsumentenschutz @Konsumentenschutz klärt auf.

https://skeptix.org/2026/01/21/maerchen-luegen-marketing-wie-serioes-ist-mlm/

#multilevelmarketing #schweiz #konsumentenschutz #schneeballsystem #SkeptixBlog

📰 | Märchen, Lügen, Marketing? Wie seriös ist MLM?

Wie unterscheidet man seriöse von problematischen #MLM-Angeboten? Ein Ratgeber vom Schweizer Konsumentenschutz @Konsumentenschutz klärt auf.

https://skeptix.org/2026/01/21/maerchen-luegen-marketing-wie-serioes-ist-mlm/

#multilevelmarketing #schweiz #konsumentenschutz #schneeballsystem #SkeptixBlog

📰 | Märchen, Lügen, Marketing? Wie seriös ist MLM?

Wie unterscheidet man seriöse von problematischen #MLM-Angeboten? Ein Ratgeber vom Schweizer Konsumentenschutz @Konsumentenschutz klärt auf.

https://skeptix.org/2026/01/21/maerchen-luegen-marketing-wie-serioes-ist-mlm/

#multilevelmarketing #schweiz #konsumentenschutz #schneeballsystem #SkeptixBlog

🚨 Bán hàng đa cấp chi trả hoa hồng khổng lồ 2.600 tỷ đồng trong 6 tháng đầu 2025! Hơn 100.000 người mới đăng ký tham gia, số tiền này tương đương 37% doanh thu ngành. 💰📈 Cẩn trọng trước những rủi ro tiềm ẩn!

#BánHàngĐaCấp #MultiLevelMarketing #ĐầuTư #Investment #CảnhBáo #Warning #TinTức #News

https://vietnamnet.vn/ban-hang-da-cap-duoc-chia-hoa-hong-2-600-ty-hon-100-000-nguoi-moi-xin-gia-nhap-2445040.html

two books on a common subject, published a few months apart earlier this year — and never more timely
https://pdbowman.studio/briefs/23-jul-2025-walking-by-entrepreneurial-faith-bridget-read-erik-baker/

#BridgetRead #ErikBaker #entrepreneur #entrepreneurialism #worker #labor #beYourOwnBoss #multiLevelMarketing #HarvardBusinessSchool

two books on a common subject, published a few months apart earlier this year — and never more timely
https://pdbowman.studio/briefs/23-jul-2025-walking-by-entrepreneurial-faith-bridget-read-erik-baker/

#BridgetRead #ErikBaker #entrepreneur #entrepreneurialism #worker #labor #beYourOwnBoss #multiLevelMarketing #HarvardBusinessSchool

two books on a common subject, published a few months apart earlier this year — and never more timely
https://pdbowman.studio/briefs/23-jul-2025-walking-by-entrepreneurial-faith-bridget-read-erik-baker/

#BridgetRead #ErikBaker #entrepreneur #entrepreneurialism #worker #labor #beYourOwnBoss #multiLevelMarketing #HarvardBusinessSchool

"If you reject the very idea that problems are systemic, then you have no use for institutions, and institutions are the only effective response to systemic problems. That primes you to reject the unsatisfying answers of science ("If you don't want to get cancer, regulate corporations and cars that dump carcinogens into the environment") in favor of individual solutions, which are, inevitably, products that someone can sell you, from alkaline water to electrosmog-shielding hats.

Rejecting systemic explanations also primes you to believe in conspiracy theories. This is why antisemitism is called "the socialism of fools": rather than fighting against the system of primacy of extractive finance capital over the productive economy, you spend all your time locked in a one-sided battle with an imaginary cabal of evil Jewish bankers.

Conspiratorial beliefs make you especially vulnerable to a grifter's sales pitch that goes like this: "Of course they don't want you to drink raw milk, otherwise you'd be as powerful as they are." Variations on this theme include "buy the miracle anti-aging cure that only billionaires are privy to" and "buy a bump stock before the conspiracy to take away your right to self-defense makes them illegal."
(...)
Many people have observed that one of the reasons conservatives govern so badly is that they campaign on the idea that "governments are wasteful and inefficient," which means that if they run the government in a wasteful and inefficient fashion, they only prove their point. In the same fashion: right-wing grifters who pitch you on the idea an evil cabal has rigged the game, and then take your money and rip you off, are demonstrating the correctness of their pitch."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/22/all-day-suckers/#i-love-the-poorly-educated

#Conservatism #ConspiracyTheories #PonziSchemes #PyramidSchemes #MultiLevelMarketing

"If you reject the very idea that problems are systemic, then you have no use for institutions, and institutions are the only effective response to systemic problems. That primes you to reject the unsatisfying answers of science ("If you don't want to get cancer, regulate corporations and cars that dump carcinogens into the environment") in favor of individual solutions, which are, inevitably, products that someone can sell you, from alkaline water to electrosmog-shielding hats.

Rejecting systemic explanations also primes you to believe in conspiracy theories. This is why antisemitism is called "the socialism of fools": rather than fighting against the system of primacy of extractive finance capital over the productive economy, you spend all your time locked in a one-sided battle with an imaginary cabal of evil Jewish bankers.

Conspiratorial beliefs make you especially vulnerable to a grifter's sales pitch that goes like this: "Of course they don't want you to drink raw milk, otherwise you'd be as powerful as they are." Variations on this theme include "buy the miracle anti-aging cure that only billionaires are privy to" and "buy a bump stock before the conspiracy to take away your right to self-defense makes them illegal."
(...)
Many people have observed that one of the reasons conservatives govern so badly is that they campaign on the idea that "governments are wasteful and inefficient," which means that if they run the government in a wasteful and inefficient fashion, they only prove their point. In the same fashion: right-wing grifters who pitch you on the idea an evil cabal has rigged the game, and then take your money and rip you off, are demonstrating the correctness of their pitch."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/22/all-day-suckers/#i-love-the-poorly-educated

#Conservatism #ConspiracyTheories #PonziSchemes #PyramidSchemes #MultiLevelMarketing

"If you reject the very idea that problems are systemic, then you have no use for institutions, and institutions are the only effective response to systemic problems. That primes you to reject the unsatisfying answers of science ("If you don't want to get cancer, regulate corporations and cars that dump carcinogens into the environment") in favor of individual solutions, which are, inevitably, products that someone can sell you, from alkaline water to electrosmog-shielding hats.

Rejecting systemic explanations also primes you to believe in conspiracy theories. This is why antisemitism is called "the socialism of fools": rather than fighting against the system of primacy of extractive finance capital over the productive economy, you spend all your time locked in a one-sided battle with an imaginary cabal of evil Jewish bankers.

Conspiratorial beliefs make you especially vulnerable to a grifter's sales pitch that goes like this: "Of course they don't want you to drink raw milk, otherwise you'd be as powerful as they are." Variations on this theme include "buy the miracle anti-aging cure that only billionaires are privy to" and "buy a bump stock before the conspiracy to take away your right to self-defense makes them illegal."
(...)
Many people have observed that one of the reasons conservatives govern so badly is that they campaign on the idea that "governments are wasteful and inefficient," which means that if they run the government in a wasteful and inefficient fashion, they only prove their point. In the same fashion: right-wing grifters who pitch you on the idea an evil cabal has rigged the game, and then take your money and rip you off, are demonstrating the correctness of their pitch."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/22/all-day-suckers/#i-love-the-poorly-educated

#Conservatism #ConspiracyTheories #PonziSchemes #PyramidSchemes #MultiLevelMarketing

"If you reject the very idea that problems are systemic, then you have no use for institutions, and institutions are the only effective response to systemic problems. That primes you to reject the unsatisfying answers of science ("If you don't want to get cancer, regulate corporations and cars that dump carcinogens into the environment") in favor of individual solutions, which are, inevitably, products that someone can sell you, from alkaline water to electrosmog-shielding hats.

Rejecting systemic explanations also primes you to believe in conspiracy theories. This is why antisemitism is called "the socialism of fools": rather than fighting against the system of primacy of extractive finance capital over the productive economy, you spend all your time locked in a one-sided battle with an imaginary cabal of evil Jewish bankers.

Conspiratorial beliefs make you especially vulnerable to a grifter's sales pitch that goes like this: "Of course they don't want you to drink raw milk, otherwise you'd be as powerful as they are." Variations on this theme include "buy the miracle anti-aging cure that only billionaires are privy to" and "buy a bump stock before the conspiracy to take away your right to self-defense makes them illegal."
(...)
Many people have observed that one of the reasons conservatives govern so badly is that they campaign on the idea that "governments are wasteful and inefficient," which means that if they run the government in a wasteful and inefficient fashion, they only prove their point. In the same fashion: right-wing grifters who pitch you on the idea an evil cabal has rigged the game, and then take your money and rip you off, are demonstrating the correctness of their pitch."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/22/all-day-suckers/#i-love-the-poorly-educated

#Conservatism #ConspiracyTheories #PonziSchemes #PyramidSchemes #MultiLevelMarketing

"MLMs prey on the poor and desperate: women, people of color, people in dying small towns and decaying rustbelt cities. It's not just that these people are desperate – it's that they only survive through networks of mutual aid. Poor women rely on other poor women to help with child care, marginalized people rely on one another for help with home maintenance, small loans, a place to crash after an eviction, or a place to park the RV you're living out of.

In other words, people who lack monetary capital must rely on social capital for survival. That's why MLMs target these people: an MLM is a system for destructively transforming social capital into monetary capital. MLMs exhort their members to mine their social relationships for "leads" and "customers" and to use the language of social solidarity ("women helping women") to wheedle, guilt, and arm-twist people from your mutual aid network into buying things they don't need and can't afford.

But it's worse, because what MLMs really sell is MLMs. The real purpose of an MLM sales call is to convince the "customer" to become an MLM salesperson, who owes you a share of every sale they make and is incentivized to buy stock they don't need (from you) in order to make quotas. And of course, their real job is to sign up other salespeople to work under them, and so on.

An MLM isn't just a pathogen, in other words – it's a contagion. When someone in your social support network gets the MLM disease, they don't just burn all their social ties with you and the people you rely on – they convince more people in your social group to do the same."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/05/power-of-positive-thinking/

#Capitalism #MarketSociety #MultiLevelMarketing #MLM #PonziScheme

"MLMs prey on the poor and desperate: women, people of color, people in dying small towns and decaying rustbelt cities. It's not just that these people are desperate – it's that they only survive through networks of mutual aid. Poor women rely on other poor women to help with child care, marginalized people rely on one another for help with home maintenance, small loans, a place to crash after an eviction, or a place to park the RV you're living out of.

In other words, people who lack monetary capital must rely on social capital for survival. That's why MLMs target these people: an MLM is a system for destructively transforming social capital into monetary capital. MLMs exhort their members to mine their social relationships for "leads" and "customers" and to use the language of social solidarity ("women helping women") to wheedle, guilt, and arm-twist people from your mutual aid network into buying things they don't need and can't afford.

But it's worse, because what MLMs really sell is MLMs. The real purpose of an MLM sales call is to convince the "customer" to become an MLM salesperson, who owes you a share of every sale they make and is incentivized to buy stock they don't need (from you) in order to make quotas. And of course, their real job is to sign up other salespeople to work under them, and so on.

An MLM isn't just a pathogen, in other words – it's a contagion. When someone in your social support network gets the MLM disease, they don't just burn all their social ties with you and the people you rely on – they convince more people in your social group to do the same."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/05/power-of-positive-thinking/

#Capitalism #MarketSociety #MultiLevelMarketing #MLM #PonziScheme

"MLMs prey on the poor and desperate: women, people of color, people in dying small towns and decaying rustbelt cities. It's not just that these people are desperate – it's that they only survive through networks of mutual aid. Poor women rely on other poor women to help with child care, marginalized people rely on one another for help with home maintenance, small loans, a place to crash after an eviction, or a place to park the RV you're living out of.

In other words, people who lack monetary capital must rely on social capital for survival. That's why MLMs target these people: an MLM is a system for destructively transforming social capital into monetary capital. MLMs exhort their members to mine their social relationships for "leads" and "customers" and to use the language of social solidarity ("women helping women") to wheedle, guilt, and arm-twist people from your mutual aid network into buying things they don't need and can't afford.

But it's worse, because what MLMs really sell is MLMs. The real purpose of an MLM sales call is to convince the "customer" to become an MLM salesperson, who owes you a share of every sale they make and is incentivized to buy stock they don't need (from you) in order to make quotas. And of course, their real job is to sign up other salespeople to work under them, and so on.

An MLM isn't just a pathogen, in other words – it's a contagion. When someone in your social support network gets the MLM disease, they don't just burn all their social ties with you and the people you rely on – they convince more people in your social group to do the same."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/05/power-of-positive-thinking/

#Capitalism #MarketSociety #MultiLevelMarketing #MLM #PonziScheme

"MLMs prey on the poor and desperate: women, people of color, people in dying small towns and decaying rustbelt cities. It's not just that these people are desperate – it's that they only survive through networks of mutual aid. Poor women rely on other poor women to help with child care, marginalized people rely on one another for help with home maintenance, small loans, a place to crash after an eviction, or a place to park the RV you're living out of.

In other words, people who lack monetary capital must rely on social capital for survival. That's why MLMs target these people: an MLM is a system for destructively transforming social capital into monetary capital. MLMs exhort their members to mine their social relationships for "leads" and "customers" and to use the language of social solidarity ("women helping women") to wheedle, guilt, and arm-twist people from your mutual aid network into buying things they don't need and can't afford.

But it's worse, because what MLMs really sell is MLMs. The real purpose of an MLM sales call is to convince the "customer" to become an MLM salesperson, who owes you a share of every sale they make and is incentivized to buy stock they don't need (from you) in order to make quotas. And of course, their real job is to sign up other salespeople to work under them, and so on.

An MLM isn't just a pathogen, in other words – it's a contagion. When someone in your social support network gets the MLM disease, they don't just burn all their social ties with you and the people you rely on – they convince more people in your social group to do the same."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/05/power-of-positive-thinking/

#Capitalism #MarketSociety #MultiLevelMarketing #MLM #PonziScheme

På #totusentallet hadde #fattigdommen gått så langt ned at det var nesten ikkje å se lenger. Det verste var at visse former "produkter" endte opp som en form av #MultilevelMarketing istedenfor, smugling inkludert.

Nå som fattigdommeb øker ser vi en økning i #oeganisertkriminalitet og vi har ingen andre å klandre enn våre #politikere.

Du kan leve så mye i benektelse som du vil, men vi har mer enn nok #sosiologi og #psykologi studier som kan bekrefte dette - uansett hva politikere måtte si.

På #totusentallet hadde #fattigdommen gått så langt ned at det var nesten ikkje å se lenger. Det verste var at visse former "produkter" endte opp som en form av #MultilevelMarketing istedenfor, smugling inkludert.

Nå som fattigdommeb øker ser vi en økning i #oeganisertkriminalitet og vi har ingen andre å klandre enn våre #politikere.

Du kan leve så mye i benektelse som du vil, men vi har mer enn nok #sosiologi og #psykologi studier som kan bekrefte dette - uansett hva politikere måtte si.

På #totusentallet hadde #fattigdommen gått så langt ned at det var nesten ikkje å se lenger. Det verste var at visse former "produkter" endte opp som en form av #MultilevelMarketing istedenfor, smugling inkludert.

Nå som fattigdommeb øker ser vi en økning i #oeganisertkriminalitet og vi har ingen andre å klandre enn våre #politikere.

Du kan leve så mye i benektelse som du vil, men vi har mer enn nok #sosiologi og #psykologi studier som kan bekrefte dette - uansett hva politikere måtte si.

MLM – das falsche Versprechen vom großen Geld

Hey, erstmal ein Kompliment zu deinem großartigen Profil, du bist mir schon einige Male aufgefallen und ich glaube Du wärst verdammt gut in dem, was ich mache. Hast du Lust richtig Geld zu verdienen? Wärst du offen für unverbindliche Infos?

Kennt ihr solche und ähnliche Nachrichten? Habt ihr vielleicht selbst schon welche bekommen? Aktuell haben die wieder Hochkonjuktur. Denn ein neues […]

https://nerdherz.blog/2025/01/17/mlm-das-falsche-versprechen-vom-grossen-geld/

#Abgründe #Medienkompetenz #MLM #MultilevelMarketing #networkmarketing #Netzwerkmarketing

MLM – das falsche Versprechen vom großen Geld

Hey, erstmal ein Kompliment zu deinem großartigen Profil, du bist mir schon einige Male aufgefallen und ich glaube Du wärst verdammt gut in dem, was ich mache. Hast du Lust richtig Geld zu verdienen? Wärst du offen für unverbindliche Infos?

Kennt ihr solche und ähnliche Nachrichten? Habt ihr vielleicht selbst schon welche bekommen? Aktuell haben die wieder Hochkonjuktur. Denn ein neues […]

https://nerdherz.blog/2025/01/17/mlm-das-falsche-versprechen-vom-grossen-geld/

#Abgründe #Medienkompetenz #MLM #MultilevelMarketing #networkmarketing #Netzwerkmarketing

I will always look down on #MultiLevelMarketing products and especially the people peddling them.
#MLM #SorryNotSorry

I will always look down on #MultiLevelMarketing products and especially the people peddling them.
#MLM #SorryNotSorry

I will always look down on #MultiLevelMarketing products and especially the people peddling them.
#MLM #SorryNotSorry

You are not an entrepreneur if you are selling Multi Level Marketing products. You are just a salesperson being duped to believe you are one so you can be paid less than if they had a proper product they could sell and market.
#MLM #MultiLevelMarketing #entrepreneur

You are not an entrepreneur if you are selling Multi Level Marketing products. You are just a salesperson being duped to believe you are one so you can be paid less than if they had a proper product they could sell and market.
#MLM #MultiLevelMarketing #entrepreneur

You are not an entrepreneur if you are selling Multi Level Marketing products. You are just a salesperson being duped to believe you are one so you can be paid less than if they had a proper product they could sell and market.
#MLM #MultiLevelMarketing #entrepreneur

Von den Gemeinsamkeiten von #Sekten und #multiLevelMarketing. Und von dem Bedarf einer Regulierungsstelle beim #arbeitsministerium.

https://taz.de/Schuldenfalle-Multi-Level-Marketing/!6041060/

Von den Gemeinsamkeiten von #Sekten und #multiLevelMarketing. Und von dem Bedarf einer Regulierungsstelle beim #arbeitsministerium.

https://taz.de/Schuldenfalle-Multi-Level-Marketing/!6041060/

Von den Gemeinsamkeiten von #Sekten und #multiLevelMarketing. Und von dem Bedarf einer Regulierungsstelle beim #arbeitsministerium.

https://taz.de/Schuldenfalle-Multi-Level-Marketing/!6041060/

Von den Gemeinsamkeiten von #Sekten und #multiLevelMarketing. Und von dem Bedarf einer Regulierungsstelle beim #arbeitsministerium.

https://taz.de/Schuldenfalle-Multi-Level-Marketing/!6041060/

So much to unpack (burp?) about this important bit of #foodhistory news. https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/tupperware-brands-files-chapter-11-bankruptcy-2024-09-18/ #Tupperware #homeparties #foodpreservation #leftovers #multilevelmarketing #domesticspaces

So much to unpack (burp?) about this important bit of #foodhistory news. https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/tupperware-brands-files-chapter-11-bankruptcy-2024-09-18/ #Tupperware #homeparties #foodpreservation #leftovers #multilevelmarketing #domesticspaces

So much to unpack (burp?) about this important bit of #foodhistory news. https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/tupperware-brands-files-chapter-11-bankruptcy-2024-09-18/ #Tupperware #homeparties #foodpreservation #leftovers #multilevelmarketing #domesticspaces

So much to unpack (burp?) about this important bit of #foodhistory news. https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/tupperware-brands-files-chapter-11-bankruptcy-2024-09-18/ #Tupperware #homeparties #foodpreservation #leftovers #multilevelmarketing #domesticspaces

A memoir from a former MLM rep. The insight into MLMs was interesting as was reading about a life so different from my own. The research however was surface level as was the reflection on her own privilege. Hey, Hun by Emily Lynn Paulson https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/7390fd11-496f-411f-b3e5-7024a854af51 #bookstodon #bookreview #memoir #antimlm #multilevelmarketing

A memoir from a former MLM rep. The insight into MLMs was interesting as was reading about a life so different from my own. The research however was surface level as was the reflection on her own privilege. Hey, Hun by Emily Lynn Paulson https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/7390fd11-496f-411f-b3e5-7024a854af51 #bookstodon #bookreview #memoir #antimlm #multilevelmarketing

Every multi-level marketing (MLM) company is kind of like a turducken: a pyramid scheme inside a cult inside a fraud. #MultiLevelMarketing #antiMLM #cults #fraud

Every multi-level marketing (MLM) company is kind of like a turducken: a pyramid scheme inside a cult inside a fraud. #MultiLevelMarketing #antiMLM #cults #fraud

Every multi-level marketing (MLM) company is kind of like a turducken: a pyramid scheme inside a cult inside a fraud. #MultiLevelMarketing #antiMLM #cults #fraud

I just came across this quite by accident. It is quite lengthy but informative. It could apply to #religion and #religious groups / #cults, #MultiLevelMarketing (#MLM) organizations, or nowadays to #politics and various #political groups, especially the #Christofascists and #ChristianNationalism and similar #falseChristianity groups that seem to be taking over the #GOP / #Republicans in the USA. Young people in particular need to be informed about the dangers of such groups, since they prey on the young, who don't have enough life experience to have been exposed to such groups and therefore have no idea what they are getting into until it's too late.

The 25 Signs you’re in a High-Control Group or Cult by Anastasia Somerville-Wong
https://secularliturgies.wordpress.com/2020/02/24/the-25-signs-youre-in-a-high-control-group-or-cult-by-anastasia-somerville-wong/

I just came across this quite by accident. It is quite lengthy but informative. It could apply to #religion and #religious groups / #cults, #MultiLevelMarketing (#MLM) organizations, or nowadays to #politics and various #political groups, especially the #Christofascists and #ChristianNationalism and similar #falseChristianity groups that seem to be taking over the #GOP / #Republicans in the USA. Young people in particular need to be informed about the dangers of such groups, since they prey on the young, who don't have enough life experience to have been exposed to such groups and therefore have no idea what they are getting into until it's too late.

The 25 Signs you’re in a High-Control Group or Cult by Anastasia Somerville-Wong
https://secularliturgies.wordpress.com/2020/02/24/the-25-signs-youre-in-a-high-control-group-or-cult-by-anastasia-somerville-wong/

I just came across this quite by accident. It is quite lengthy but informative. It could apply to #religion and #religious groups / #cults, #MultiLevelMarketing (#MLM) organizations, or nowadays to #politics and various #political groups, especially the #Christofascists and #ChristianNationalism and similar #falseChristianity groups that seem to be taking over the #GOP / #Republicans in the USA. Young people in particular need to be informed about the dangers of such groups, since they prey on the young, who don't have enough life experience to have been exposed to such groups and therefore have no idea what they are getting into until it's too late.

The 25 Signs you’re in a High-Control Group or Cult by Anastasia Somerville-Wong
https://secularliturgies.wordpress.com/2020/02/24/the-25-signs-youre-in-a-high-control-group-or-cult-by-anastasia-somerville-wong/

I just came across this quite by accident. It is quite lengthy but informative. It could apply to #religion and #religious groups / #cults, #MultiLevelMarketing (#MLM) organizations, or nowadays to #politics and various #political groups, especially the #Christofascists and #ChristianNationalism and similar #falseChristianity groups that seem to be taking over the #GOP / #Republicans in the USA. Young people in particular need to be informed about the dangers of such groups, since they prey on the young, who don't have enough life experience to have been exposed to such groups and therefore have no idea what they are getting into until it's too late.

The 25 Signs you’re in a High-Control Group or Cult by Anastasia Somerville-Wong
https://secularliturgies.wordpress.com/2020/02/24/the-25-signs-youre-in-a-high-control-group-or-cult-by-anastasia-somerville-wong/

#MLM #PyramidScheme #MultiLevelMarketing #Capitalism: "Officially, of course, a multilevel marketing company is distinct from an actual pyramid scheme. But, as longtime MLM critic Robert FitzPatrick argues, the boundary between “legitimate” multilevel marketing and straightforward fraud is porous at best. As per FitzPatrick, the US government defines the legal variety as “a type of enterprise in which participants can earn money from their own retail sales and from commission overrides based on the retail sales of other participants they recruit in a genealogical chain.” The problem, as he observes, is that the FTC has never actually identified a single MLM company that meets such a definition. “Since,” FitzPatrick writes, “no one in MLM actually does gain or could gain sustainable profit from retailing, no one also gains income from retail sales of those recruited. The legitimate, retail-based MLM is as real as a Unicorn.”

In truth, it’s hard to think of a better microcosm for capitalism than multilevel marketing, or a more apt depiction of why its foundational mythology is so obviously a fraud. In the world of MLMs, all of us are just temporarily embarrassed millionaires. With sufficient effort and the application of vigorous work ethic, anyone and everyone can be their own boss while spreading the good word far and wide so that others can rise too. According to MLM’s oleaginous prosperity gospel, sales reps get to help others by selling useful products and enriching themselves, engaging in a perfect symbiosis of enlightened self-interest. Those who lose money or complain are, by extension, either lazy or otherwise personally defective."

https://jacobin.com/2021/10/multilevel-marketing-scam-lularoe-pyramid-scheme-capitalism-myth

#MLM #PyramidScheme #MultiLevelMarketing #Capitalism: "Officially, of course, a multilevel marketing company is distinct from an actual pyramid scheme. But, as longtime MLM critic Robert FitzPatrick argues, the boundary between “legitimate” multilevel marketing and straightforward fraud is porous at best. As per FitzPatrick, the US government defines the legal variety as “a type of enterprise in which participants can earn money from their own retail sales and from commission overrides based on the retail sales of other participants they recruit in a genealogical chain.” The problem, as he observes, is that the FTC has never actually identified a single MLM company that meets such a definition. “Since,” FitzPatrick writes, “no one in MLM actually does gain or could gain sustainable profit from retailing, no one also gains income from retail sales of those recruited. The legitimate, retail-based MLM is as real as a Unicorn.”

In truth, it’s hard to think of a better microcosm for capitalism than multilevel marketing, or a more apt depiction of why its foundational mythology is so obviously a fraud. In the world of MLMs, all of us are just temporarily embarrassed millionaires. With sufficient effort and the application of vigorous work ethic, anyone and everyone can be their own boss while spreading the good word far and wide so that others can rise too. According to MLM’s oleaginous prosperity gospel, sales reps get to help others by selling useful products and enriching themselves, engaging in a perfect symbiosis of enlightened self-interest. Those who lose money or complain are, by extension, either lazy or otherwise personally defective."

https://jacobin.com/2021/10/multilevel-marketing-scam-lularoe-pyramid-scheme-capitalism-myth

#MLM #PyramidScheme #MultiLevelMarketing #Capitalism: "Officially, of course, a multilevel marketing company is distinct from an actual pyramid scheme. But, as longtime MLM critic Robert FitzPatrick argues, the boundary between “legitimate” multilevel marketing and straightforward fraud is porous at best. As per FitzPatrick, the US government defines the legal variety as “a type of enterprise in which participants can earn money from their own retail sales and from commission overrides based on the retail sales of other participants they recruit in a genealogical chain.” The problem, as he observes, is that the FTC has never actually identified a single MLM company that meets such a definition. “Since,” FitzPatrick writes, “no one in MLM actually does gain or could gain sustainable profit from retailing, no one also gains income from retail sales of those recruited. The legitimate, retail-based MLM is as real as a Unicorn.”

In truth, it’s hard to think of a better microcosm for capitalism than multilevel marketing, or a more apt depiction of why its foundational mythology is so obviously a fraud. In the world of MLMs, all of us are just temporarily embarrassed millionaires. With sufficient effort and the application of vigorous work ethic, anyone and everyone can be their own boss while spreading the good word far and wide so that others can rise too. According to MLM’s oleaginous prosperity gospel, sales reps get to help others by selling useful products and enriching themselves, engaging in a perfect symbiosis of enlightened self-interest. Those who lose money or complain are, by extension, either lazy or otherwise personally defective."

https://jacobin.com/2021/10/multilevel-marketing-scam-lularoe-pyramid-scheme-capitalism-myth

#MLM #PyramidScheme #MultiLevelMarketing #Capitalism: "Officially, of course, a multilevel marketing company is distinct from an actual pyramid scheme. But, as longtime MLM critic Robert FitzPatrick argues, the boundary between “legitimate” multilevel marketing and straightforward fraud is porous at best. As per FitzPatrick, the US government defines the legal variety as “a type of enterprise in which participants can earn money from their own retail sales and from commission overrides based on the retail sales of other participants they recruit in a genealogical chain.” The problem, as he observes, is that the FTC has never actually identified a single MLM company that meets such a definition. “Since,” FitzPatrick writes, “no one in MLM actually does gain or could gain sustainable profit from retailing, no one also gains income from retail sales of those recruited. The legitimate, retail-based MLM is as real as a Unicorn.”

In truth, it’s hard to think of a better microcosm for capitalism than multilevel marketing, or a more apt depiction of why its foundational mythology is so obviously a fraud. In the world of MLMs, all of us are just temporarily embarrassed millionaires. With sufficient effort and the application of vigorous work ethic, anyone and everyone can be their own boss while spreading the good word far and wide so that others can rise too. According to MLM’s oleaginous prosperity gospel, sales reps get to help others by selling useful products and enriching themselves, engaging in a perfect symbiosis of enlightened self-interest. Those who lose money or complain are, by extension, either lazy or otherwise personally defective."

https://jacobin.com/2021/10/multilevel-marketing-scam-lularoe-pyramid-scheme-capitalism-myth