And on to this month's admittedly brief column on our chosen subject:
MLM or multi-level-marketing, the biggest cult to sweep the nation since Puritanism.
It all started with AmWay, didn't it? That's what they want us to think, anyhow. Sell products for a good cause, and make yourself rich to boot-recruit people into your downline and get a chunk of their sales; the snowball to wealth is inevitable. And in the case of AmWay, half a dozen people actually did get rich.
Now it's junk mail, spam, and Hell-On-Usenet. You can't open your InBox without being deluged by people who have been suckered into this mindless, cultic, "obey and be rewarded" thinking. What is more cultic than the evangelistic 'downline' concept? Save souls, save your own. Make others wealthy, make yourself wealthy. It's all the same no-brainer thinking going on.
According to the Better Business Bureau in Toledo, Ohio, there is not one instance of an actual wealth-producing program in their nationwide database which uses stuffing envelopes, forwarding mail with cash, or any of the other commonly promoted schemes. The woman I spoke to said, "Honey, if any of these things worked, you think I'd be here punching the clock instead of home stuffing envelopes or whatever?" She has a point. She works for the BBB.
Anything that promises great reward for little or no effort is a lie-that's how I see it. Eternal salvation or a fat checkbook, it's going to cost you, probably in blood, definitely sweat, and if you're not careful, more than your share of tears.
Think before you join. And think before you post-the spammers are ruthless, they will find you.
P.S. If you're one of them-I'm not interested, take me off your list!
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