One of the crazy things that our Amway upline taught the group was that the facts don't matter when you have a dream. There is evidence that this is still taught today and in particular, I have heard that from IBOs who claim to associate with WWDB. IBOs are taught to ignore facts because the facts make their Amway businesses look like a joke. Spend $300 a month on products to gain a $10 rebate when you could have bought the same or similar products at Walmart for a fraction of the cost. Then many IBOs spend another $200 or more so they can be taught to ignore facts or that this is somehow a great deal.
Any real business owner would never ignore facts. A real business owner makes business decisions based on facts. IBOs are being duped into making business decisions based on emotions and hype. The Amway opportunity already is already saturated with handicaps and challenges, particularly in the US and Canada, where the reputations and previous antics of fellow IBOs has so stained Amway's name that it appears to be negatively affecting sales and preventing any meaningful growth. Despite what Amway apologists claim, Amway revenues are shrinking (about 25% decline from 2013 to 2017) and will continue to do so unless improvements and corrections are made, in my opinion. It's also possible that it is too late to right the ship at this point.It is also why many IBOs talk about how Amway saves marriages, or Amway made them nicer people. Uplines will teach this because it takes a business owner's focus away from their bottom line, the profit or loss. Or IBOs are taught that a loss just means they are investing in their business, despite being told upfront that there is little or no investment needed and that a profit can be turned quickly in Amway. These uplines have gone on for years with no accountability placed upon them by either Amway or their downlines. Any "incidents" are simply ignored or history revised by uplines.
There is one blog on the internet, where a WWDB IBO is writing about buying homes in cash, and Amway IBOs having a 2% divorce rate compared to more than 50% in the rest of the world, yet you have Amway defenders claiming this isn't being taught, when clearly it is. Cover it up all you want; the evidence is right there but these folks aren't interested in the facts. I urge great caution to people who are ignoring facts to pursue an Amway dream.
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Joe Cool, the business about "ignoring the facts" is one of the key signs of a cult. A cult is an association based on deep personal commitment to an absolutist ideology -- an the commitment and the ideology always take precedence over plain facts.
The Amway AMO subsystems don't care a fig about actual reality, other than the unquestioning obedience of IBOs to their up-line, and the regular payment of fees and the purchasing of products. Facts such as loss of money, no profits, failure to get retail customers, the uselessness of "tools," the impossibility of getting and keeping any down-line at all (much less a 6-4-2 structure) are all dismissed by your Amway up-line as normal. correct, and part of "building the business."
Refusal to face reality when you have a "dream" is the sign of cultic slavery, much like superstition about witch doctors, or fanatical political ideologies like Communism and Nazism, or just plain old psychological disorder.
It is amazing that people will stay in Amway for years and even decades, always losing money and often wrecking their marriages and lives. Why does it happen? Very simple -- because a cult is like an infectious disease that you are never cured of.
In WWDB (now WWG) there was a creep called Dexter Yager who would wander among the crowd at a "function," and intensely whisper in each person's ear these words: "Do you BELIEVE? Do you BELIEVE?"
It's that kind of insanity that rules in the Amway cult.
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