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Part One: Amway: The Gravedigger of Democracy

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

The History of Free Enterprise

In its first full year of business, 19 60, amway had made just half a million dollars. By 19 77, the company was selling more than 300 million dollars in products per year - mostly to its own distributors. Amway measures a distributor's success by how many products the person sells and by the size of thei distributors down line. Each time the distributors get a new recruit they add to their personal sales force and elevate their own position,. increasing the mount of money they get from people below them while acquiring ever loftier titles. Despite all their growing propaganda operations, de voss continued to deliver his regular sermons on capitalism and christianity at amway events.

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