One of the things I recall as an Amway IBO was thinking how sorry I felt for people who were not IBOs because we were all going to be rich and everyone else was a loser. Our upline used to tell us that we were winners - and if you weren't a winner, then obviously, you are a loser. Many times, the term "broke" was attached to the term loser. That was my mindset back then, but having been out of the system more than ten years, I can look back and laugh, realizing that the losers were the ones buying stuff they don't need, stalking people at malls and bookstores, and wasting their time and money on tapes (cds), books and functions.
What goes unnoticed in many cases, is how much time and money really goes down the drain for IBOs who work the system. Your life revolves around the business if you are dedicated and hard core. You are always looking for prospects and people to show the plan to, and you have to rearrange your schedules, or outright skip social or family gatherings because of the neverending number of meetings and functions, many of which teach you nothing about running a profitable business. When I first left the Amway business, I was sort of angry at the time and effort that was wasted, along with the cash I threw down the crapper.
But after I did finally cut ties with the business and the people associated with it, I got back into a routine of sorts. I focused on my job and after some years of gaining experience and working my way up the corporate ladder, I received some promotions and I am scheduled to be retired before the age of 60 with a decent retirement income and will likely have my home paid off by then. So while I did have to work a dreaded job to be able to retire, pretty much all IBOs are also working a job or business PLUS having to expend their time and money to run their Amway business which has little to no chance of providing a long term stable and significant income. And if I may add, it is the systems such as WWDB or N21 that usually end up costing the IBOs the most money because of things like the functions.
So I will ask the question. Who's the real loser? The person diligently working and saving for their future or the person chasing a dream that is unlikely to materialize? Factoring in the expenditure of time also makes the systems even more costly than it appears on the surface.
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Even though I absolutely DETEST (and that is putting it nicely) Amway and WWDB, there are most certainly some very good, kind, well meaning people who have been suckered into this dead end money sucking plot that is called a business. Innocent hard working people who had a great future ahead of them and tricked into this by mind control (cult). I would refer to skme of them as VICTIMS instead of losers. Such a waste of a persons life.
Yes, you're right. When innocent people are tricked into Amway for the first time, then they are victims, and they should be pitied and helped if possible.
But when people are hemorrhaging money to their up-line month after month, and year after year, without seeing any real profit for all their work, then they are no longer innocent victims. They are self-deluded losers in a cult.
And it is hard to walk away from a cult. So by the time they realize it is not paying off financially their minds do not know any better. Actually that mind control starts very quickly, it is sad, very sad
And it is hard to walk away from a cult. So by the time they realize it is not paying off financially their minds do not know any better. Actually that mind control starts very quickly, it is sad, very sad. It is VERY DIFFICULT to reason with them. What once used to be a very sensible, level headed person is now a robotic person that refuses to listen to ANYONE, if it is not coming from their mentor or upline it is negative and therefore untrue!
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