Quote:
|
Originally Posted by lookout123
while catching up on this thread i just had the realization that my wife is involved in what many would consider to be an MLM.
|
Products which are valued by the buyer, no start-up costs, and no pressure to sign on other distributors? That doesn't sound extremely evil. No doubt a chunk of the company's money is made by sellers who leverage guilt or insecurity against their friends and family, but that happens outside of MLMs, too... just to a lesser extent.
When I think of MLMs, I think of when I was in Junior High, and the school allowed this company to come in every year and recruit young students to sell magazine subscriptions. If we sold so many subscriptions, we got semi-worthless prize X, and if the whole school sold a very large number of subscriptions, the school received moderately valuable prize Y. So naturally kids went home and convinced their parents, older siblings, extended family, and friends of the family to subscribe to magazines they neither wanted nor needed. I never got involved myself, but talk about exploiting the innocent and unsuspecting. Yuck. That's the philosophy many MLMs follow, and it's rotten.