Satan's Luau

Or why MLMs still exist -- much to my disbelief and counter to my most rational expectations

Well, it happened -- someone asked SD to go to a MLM meeting
There's no need to say the name, suffice it to say, there are MANY, MANY here in Paradise -- I guess the price of paradise really does hit people hard in terms of the work they have to do to get by here -- people really feel the burden of costs and money here -- BIG TIME!

I feel odd, because I remember when I was looking for jobs after college I was galled into showing up for quite a few of these "meetings" -- ultimately with the promise of money

All it made me think was that money must mean something to everyone -- it's probably a little different for everyone -- but certainly and most commonly it drives our lives to a larger degree

Without money, well it seems that a lot of things we tie our notion of "pleasure" to -- are primarily or indirectly affiliated with money -- no money, no toys -- no money, no free time -- make your own list -- it will get very long

Well, she asked me about the group -- I gave her the dope about it -- and she went anyway -- but she really did not want to go, but went to support her friend

I suppose the thing that kills me about these things is that they ask you to bring your friend, your family member, your S.O., your co-worker

Why? Oh, obviously because you care about them and their future -- so what's in it for them -- well you can be added to their upline -- if you don't know what an upline is, imagine how the pyramid looks like in Egypt

Then visualize or think for yourself, how many blocks does it take to support the top most block -- ergo, the lower you are, the less you get -- yet the more people ahead of you benefit from your own hard work

And I thought this was all about your independence, your financial future -- seems like what people refer to as a scheme or scam -- why are these places not concerned about whether you have direct sales experience -- not concerned at all that you don't have a CFP or Series 6,7,63, et al. for selling insurance or security instruments

Well, recently my family friend asked me to join on to a MLM, and I did -- but I did it just to buy the products -- I like their products, they are very good in the skin care area -- although she said I'd probably do really well in it -- I'm just not into treating my family and friends as $ signs -- and you probably don't think of your loved ones that way too

That's why I really hate MLMs, they take your own greed and threaten to upset your personal relationships -- then people above you will make you feel guilty and pressured to squeeze your loved ones, so they can make money -- pretty dark stuff