COMMONS - CULTS - Multilevel Marketing (Episode 7 and 8)
Episode 7
- MLMs have moved from co-opting femnist and suffragist terminology to holistic, all nautral, non toxic, etc.
- Pseudo-religious experience
- Completely adjacent to the prosperity gospel grift.
- The requirement for folks involved to only operate on hope and dreams.
- If you fail - it’s a character defect. If you succeed - then it’s part of the system. This is part of how it becomes a belief system.
Episode 8
Multilevel marketing isn’t based on rational business logic, it’s not even built on a irrational business logic. It’s ideology. It’s faith. It’s a particularly American form of faith. The Protestant ethic stripped away of even the pretensions of Christian charity.
- Amway’s DNA and creation is all prosperity theology and making the 99% set up to fail to feel shame and not blame Amway.
- To do fraud on an industrial scale you need a belief system, propaganda. Authoritarian control is a requirement
COMMONS - CULTS 7 - Hey Bossbabe!
https://overcast.fm/+7ppdxFQeo
https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/cults-7-hey-bossbabe/
COMMONS - CULTS 8 - The Eye of the Pyramid
https://overcast.fm/+7ppetVn2M
https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/cults-8-the-eye-of-the-pyramid/