Samantha Bee looks at Facebook propagated multilevel marketing

I haven’t. I’ve been a victim of an MLM. They’re fucking scum, preying on people’s gullibility and desperation. Like any other con.

I won’t tell you which scam it was, because you’ll try to weasel your way out of condoning the obvious scams MLMs are.

Suffice it to say, they advertised that it’s quick to start selling, that they would provide leads, and that you can do it from home.

It turns out they REQUIRED me to buy on installment the full line up of their product offerings, in order to demonstrate them in a 6 hour class, that they would provide leads after 6 months of regular sales on my own leads, and that you can absolutely do it from home by “making sure to try and sell all of your friends and family on the product! Make sure that you leave no stone unturned and don’t take no for an answer.” “if your friends won’t buy then are they even really your friends?” “I made hundreds of dollars a day selling this stuff, you’re not trying hard if you can’t do it.”

A real job pays you for your time and output. Not for access to your private resources of friends and family. That’s a scam.

And I can see we have @MWave typing here for a solid ten fifteen minutes now. Whatcha working on there Hemingway?

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