One of the Amway pitches used by upline was the four Is. The upline would give a recruitment speech about how the four Is (I) would suck the life out of you. Now you might be wondering what the heck I’m talking about? Well, the four Is are insurance, interest, income tax and inflation. Each of these factors basically made your job futile as you would never be able to overcome these issues because of the limitations of a job.
Most everyone has various types of insurance, typically car, home (or renter's insurance) and possibly life insurance where you pay for something you hope you will never need to use. This expense is depicted as a necessary evil that helps make people broke. Next you have interest. As many or most people are in debt, you wind up paying interest. You pay interest on any debts you have but receive very little of it for your money in the bank.Then you have income tax. The government makes sure they take a piece of your earnings to provide public services and taxes seemingly only go up but never down. You can’t escape paying taxes. It’s the only sure thing in life besides death. Lastly there’s inflation. Luckily with interest rates at record lows, inflation is low but the common denominator is that all of the four Is take pieces of your income.
What gets weird from here is how upline will toss you a pitch to justify how someway somehow, Amway levels the playing field and by doing Amway you can overcome the four Is. I find it odd how so many IBOs miss the fact that they are cash negative directly attributable to Amway and the related Amway tool and function sales.
While the uplines may give a slippery way of pitching Amway, anyone with common sense and the ability to do some basic general math should be able to see right thru the charade. How can a cash negative proposition help you with the four Is? The answer is it can’t but you need to be able to discern the forest from the trees to see through upline deception. Also, when you sit and think about it, how does an Amway business help you to deal with these issues? It only makes things worse if you have more negative cash flow. This is why I've stated that doing nothing is likely better than Amway. LOL
Amway likes to use simple, stupid little slogans that assholes can remember easily. The "Four I's" are a perfect example. It gives an IBO pleasure to remember the "Four I's," and quote them sententiously when trying to recruit somebody.
ReplyDeleteBut the stupid IBO never really thinks about whether the slogan truly means anything, or whether the Amway "Plan" will actually help him to escape interest, inflation, insurance, and income tax. In reality, no one can escape those four things, unless they become fabulously rich.
And you ain't gonna get fabulously rich in the Amway racket. That's why it's called Scamway.