I always thought MLMs were a bit of a joke and no longer existed. In the social spheres I willfully interact with MLMs are always the butt of a joke. In my whole life I've never had a close or distant friend try to sell me something.
Then my first child was born, and there's a great mixing of classes and social circles that happens. You no longer necessarily choose the adult friends you interact with.
All of a sudden, the whatsapp chat we setup among parents to coordinate 'kids things' became yet another platform for these MLM moms to push their shit (the dads are too busy talking about sports and gambling.)
It's really sad, desperate, and shows a complete lack of social awareness -- something I was never exposed to.
I was once stumped in trying to figure out why people do things against their own interests, but the MLM moms gave me the answer: A lot of people lack the critical thinking, distancing and math I consider fundamental.
> A lot of people lack the critical thinking, distancing and math I consider fundamental.
Mother in law took my partner and I to a "flipping houses seminar" with one of the TV hosts (by which I mean there was a cardboard cutout and some vague promise that if you signed up for the course there might be some meet and greet at some point).
They boasted "10s of thousands of members, some of whom had flipped 30+ houses with us!", and "We've financed 100 million of purchases".
Wow, exclaimed people, that's a lot of money! And for only $4,995 for the course!
And then I pointed out to MIL that at, say $100K a house, that formerly impressive $100MM investment was only 1,000 homes flipped...
... from 10s of thousands of members... "some of whom have flipped 30+ homes".
So, extrapolating, the average person that went through their course flipped... maybe 0.025 homes.
Faced with that math, she put away the checkbook and we left at the intermission.
Then my first child was born, and there's a great mixing of classes and social circles that happens. You no longer necessarily choose the adult friends you interact with.
All of a sudden, the whatsapp chat we setup among parents to coordinate 'kids things' became yet another platform for these MLM moms to push their shit (the dads are too busy talking about sports and gambling.)
It's really sad, desperate, and shows a complete lack of social awareness -- something I was never exposed to.
I was once stumped in trying to figure out why people do things against their own interests, but the MLM moms gave me the answer: A lot of people lack the critical thinking, distancing and math I consider fundamental.