It’s always amusing to watch people accuse MLMs of feeding easily demonstrable BS to their gullible “victims” who ignorantly accept whatever they’re told at face value – while feeding easily demonstrable BS to their gullible audience who ignorantly accepts whatever they’re told at face value. Like this easily demonstrable load of crap from Samantha Bee. For example…
The Trump Network was not “launched in 2009” nor was it owned or “run by” Donald Trump, in any way, ever. A 10 year old company called Ideal Health simply changed there name as part of a licensing deal, with no change to ownership or management, which are facts that can be quickly and easily known by merely Googling “The Trump Network” – so Bee’s (and the Beast’s) claims are either the result of gross incompetency, or are outright lies.
Contrary to Bee’s assertion, no MLM company pays their reps based solely on the number of those they recruit, but rather only when products are sold. In fact, if a LuLaRoe rep were to personally recruit 10,000 other reps she would earn absolutely nothing – until one of them purchased or sold a product.
Bee also conveniently (or ignorantly) failed to mention that virtually all of the over 1,000 MLM companies in the US will take back and refund 90-100% of the cost of any unsold inventory (and in most cases sales aids) for at least 90 days and often up to one year, with just one exception – LuLaRoe (what an ironic coincidence).
The document “Chapter 7: MLM’s Abysmal Numbers” which Bee briefly flashes on the screen with no accreditation, but cites several claims from, is from chapter 7 of a long discredited 50,000 word anti-MLM manifesto entirely written over a decade ago by a single avid MLM critic, from his home, while calling himself “The Consumer Awareness Institute”. Within this document, for example, the “1% of MLM participants profit” claim was derived in part by the author simply pulling his absurdly high “estimated” total monthly expenses straight out of his… thin air.
My point here is actually very similar to Bee’s, and most other MLM critics: Don’t let other people do your thinking for you. Form your own opinions, then make your own decisions, based on your own objective evaluation. That way, people with biased, self-serving agendas can’t deceive you with their BS.
