If you have ever sat through an Amway presentation and the follow up teachings as I did, you can get a clear picture of how the uplines slowly suck people into the system. The speaker will be introduced as a picture of success. Possibly introduced as being in the top 1/10 of 1% in income (But with no proof). They will talk about how taxes, insurance, and inflation eat away at your paycheck. More than likely they will say they suffered the same way until they figured out how to defeat these issues by making more money. Of course they will eventually drop the "A" bomb on you and say it's Amway. Very likely they will say that you should not care what it is if it gets results.
You are then shown the plan and many people think that 2-5 years and "finding six" is something very manageable for the results they promote (walking the beaches while residual income flows in). At the very least they say, you will make some money and save some money. Who can argue with that kind of logic? They will also likely mention that Amway is low risk or no risk with little or no start-up costs. Again, how can you argue with that logic?
You finally convince yourself that you can do this. You sign up and you are likely told that it is important to get some tools because after all, a carpenter can't build homes without a hammer and saw and that any business owner would have to make some investment into their own business. So now because of the tools, you are operating at a loss. You may then be told that business owners normally operate at a loss for years and that it might also be wise to channel your bonuses back into your business by purchasing more tools.
Before you know it, months or years may pass before you start to realize that you are on a treadmill. You keep walking but end up going nowhere. Then your upline may tell you that the business is not about money but more about making lifelong friendships.
In my opinion, this whole system is a cleverly designed systematic way for uplines to slowly drain your resources and making you think that you are successful despite showing no profits. Your upline may edify small things like showing the plan or making a sacrifice to attend a function. Sadly, you will rarely see someone edified for actually making a net profit.
It's a slow process, but most people slowly get sucked into the system, just like quicksand. I hope IBOs and information seekers are able to recognize the scheme if and when it happens to them.
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Everything in Amway is about BELIEVING, but not about KNOWING. Your Amway up-line insists that you take things on faith alone, and commit yourself to trusting him. This is why your up-line is fanatical about preventing you from KNOWING facts and figures, or ADDING things up, or coldly EXAMINING the exaggerated claims that Amway makes.
Thinking, examining, and knowing are absolutely taboo in Amway. You can't go on the internet. You can't visit anti-MLM websites. You can't keep in touch with friends or relatives who are skeptical about your business. You can't keep a profit-and-loss sheet. You can't even think "negative thoughts" about the Amway racket, or say anything that might shock another member of the cult.
The Amway world is a world of dreaming, fantasizing, hoping, believing, and imagining. And when you've been in it long enough without making a dime, you will have become so addicted to all this mental fog that you won't care that you are broke.
That's what your up-line depends on.
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