tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494309285043063074.post4411352456209762383..comments2024-03-26T19:02:26.847-07:00Comments on Amway - The Dream Or The Scheme?: Amway's Empty Promises?Joecoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09121920263105613498noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494309285043063074.post-82897483298798039902016-10-10T11:21:27.208-07:002016-10-10T11:21:27.208-07:00The only reason to be in any MLM plan (or any seri...The only reason to be in any MLM plan (or any serious business at all) is to make money. If what you do doesn't earn you cash, it's futile, and you'll eventually starve.<br /><br />But since only a minuscule percentage of persons in an MLM racket ever make money, the organization has to come up with bullshit reasons for your staying in the system and losing cash regularly. Hence all the pietistic crap about "becoming a better person," or "helping others," or "saving your marriage." (By the way, this is why Evangelical assholes and Mormons are so big into Amway. They fall for sentimental whingeing like that).<br /><br />Imagine if you applied for a job with a major corporation, or even just a small private business. And imagine that the person hiring you said "I don't know if you'll get any money out of this position, but I can guarantee that you'll be a better person, and it will save your marriage!"<br /><br />Would you take the job? And yet that is precisely what Amway offers to its prospects. No money, just good feelings.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494309285043063074.post-67643720798633743072016-10-09T14:49:00.592-07:002016-10-09T14:49:00.592-07:00By saying "helping people", isn't th...By saying "helping people", isn't that straying the main purpose people why people join an MLM structure? Hoping for an extra income. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494309285043063074.post-29724431248894200422016-10-06T09:58:43.590-07:002016-10-06T09:58:43.590-07:00I'll add that these groups will tout that thei...I'll add that these groups will tout that their group is the most profitable, the teaching is the best, etc. The reality is you are selling Amway products and trying to get others to join you. It's really that simple and there is no need for extensive training. The tools scam was born out of selling hope and motivation. But reality would say that IBOs actually making money would be sufficient motivation.Joecoolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09121920263105613498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8494309285043063074.post-2168762949376169522016-10-06T09:43:26.761-07:002016-10-06T09:43:26.761-07:00Believing that your group possesses some special &...Believing that your group possesses some special "secret" that can save the world is a sure sign that you are in a cult.<br /><br />Cults are ancient, and those scholars who have studied them seriously have noted that every cult has what is called a "gnosis." That word means a kind of secret knowledge, available only to cult members and to those who choose to join the cult. If you don't receive the gnosis, you are lost, damned, condemned, judged, and fated to doom.<br /><br />Amway is not an intellectual or deeply religious cult -- it's just a nickel-and-dime business cult for small-town nobodies. But it shows all the normal outlines of any cult: secret knowledge (the sacred "Plan"), a priesthood to be obeyed (your up-line), contempt for outsiders and skeptics (they're all "broke losers" or "stuck in a JOB"), and a profound dependence on crazy hopes ("You gotta BELIEVE! You gotta BELIEVE!").<br /><br />And above all, they think that they can save the world, provide hope to the hopeless, and improve everyone's character and morals.<br /><br />What mindless bullshit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com