Posted by:
fearguiltpromise
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Date: October 22, 2010 02:42PM
Mormons and Pyramid schemes go hand in hand. I grew up in a home where my TBM mother bounced from one scheme to another, Tons of overpriced herbal 'whole foods' capsules, diet powders & liquids, magic tinctures and oils, long distance calling cards, trace mineral dirt and colloidal silver. The list goes on and on. All the products or services in a pyramid scheme are simply to make the pyramid legal, but not necessarily safe for your health. Most everything can be found at a health food store for substantially less money. But that's not the purpose of a multi-leveled marketing business. The purpose is to make money--FAST. I'll admit that I've suckered into a couple over my adult years and always feel like a fool afterward.
Orem UT is headquarters to most MLM companys.(multi-level marketing companys) Why is that? And why do they flourish in Utah?
I would hazard to guess that most of the founders of MLM's are mormon. That they used the same organizational money making strategy that the church uses. They use the same speaking technique that the GA's use in conference to instill trust and get you to part with your intellectual reasoning and hard earned dollar.
Why do mormons fall so easily for the get-rich-quick, fly-by-night operations? In my opinion, it's because of the trust factor that mormonism teaches and up-line directors deceptively use. No one even thinks that the nice man in a suit is lying to them(think General Conference). And of course being taught not to question authority. Also the products are sold with 'testimonies' to back them up. Plus, every member has an established group of friends and family and can generate a list of at least 30 potential sign-ups in under a minute.(list women attending Relief Society)
Another factor is MONEY. Instant money. The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. No 'working by the sweat of your brow' money. Unfortunately the money it takes to sign up into these MLM's comes from 'working by the sweat of your brow' jobs.
What most people don't realize is that the only money to be made in an MLM is at the very top, and it's done by lying to the lower level people and encouraging them to sign up others. If you sign up 5 people and they sign up 5 people and they sign up 5 people... Did you know that if you truly succeeded in the 5 people sign up rule, after 13 levels the number equals over 6.1 billion people? Try it on a calculator 5x5x5x5...13 times.
MLM=MormonsLosingMoney The church recommends that members not get into get-rich-quick schemes. Of course, that's probably because they'd rather the money be used for tithing. I wish my mom could total up all the money ever wasted on sign up fees, monthly required purchases and inventory along with all the tithing dollars she's ever paid and then deposit that money into an IRA or even just stuff it under a mattress.
Neither one of those will happen, new and newer MLM's will come along all with the promise of being soooo much better than anything out there and countless dollars will line the pockets of already rich shysters.
I'm wondering if there are others out there that harbor the same ill feelings toward these MLM businesses and have lived or seen the fallout they cause on the family level.