The Cult of Multi-Level Marketing
Sounds Like A Cult
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The MLM Industry's Origin Story
M l ms are at once this sort of joke, but also a pretty significant fixture in the American capitalist labor market. They're basically these paan recruit organizations where someone that you know, or nowadays, an influencer, will get in touch with you and deliver you this speech about how you like such a boss babe. The system is guaranteed to make you money no matter what. I have an analogy in my book where i say a pramid scheme is to an m l m what a milk shake is to a starbuck smoka frapacino. One is just a dignified version of the other; it'll avoid legal trouble if it's so good. And there's
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