I read this article about how you’re not a #girlboss – you’re just trapped in an MLM pyramid scheme.
https://thefinancialdiet.com/the-spirit-of-the-girlboss-is-alive-in-mlm-schemes/
If you’ve just received an amazing business opportunity to own your own business
and make bazillions of dollars a month working part time 10 to 15 hours a week
– you’re about to get scammed into Amway. Or another pyramid scheme that uses
similar catch phrases to reel in suckers.
Most pyramid schemes are focused on recruiting other prospects rather than selling products. In Amway it’s all about sell the hope not the soap. If you are an unsalaried person working for a company then that probably means you’re a dumb fuck fool or you work on commission only.
That’s what it’s like in ScAmway – a bunch of low paid commissioned sales reps dealing with an oversaturated market. Most potential customers have already heard of the Amway pyramid scheme or they look it up online to find out more despite all the abuse of the recruiter claiming that the Internet is a bathroom wall and nuns are hated more than Amway.
The Internet is a good place to find out that in Amway over 99% of participants lose money.
Sane people don’t knowingly sign up to be a commissioned
sales rep where there’s less than 1% chance of making money. Brainwashed
suckers are more willing to do that.
But let’s get back to a woman’s chances of clawing her way up the Amway pyramid.
Has anyone ever heard of a single woman reaching any level of significance in ScAmway? Let’s say at least Platinum. I’m not talking about a married couple here. Single women only. Who reached that level solo and didn’t get there on the back of a divorce or death. Just cause I haven’t heard of a woman who’s achieved that level doesn’t mean she doesn’t exist.
No takers?
That’s because Amway is a good old boy’s club. There is no way a single woman could ever be allowed to scramble up the pyramid. No #girlboss allowed in the Amway good old boy’s club.
The other thing is that a single woman might be excited at first but I think eventually she’s going to smarten up to the fact that the only way she has a chance to make money is by scamming others like the way she got scammed. A real #girlboss will be uncomfortable with the way a pyramid scheme works.
Sure there are lots of women who’d like to own their own company. Just like there already are women who do so. There’s a few ways to do this. Find something you love doing and figure out a way to make money at it. Buy a business or franchise that’s doing well. Or just fall into something you notice there’s a need for and figure out how to supply it. Find your niche and figure out supply and demand. A friend of mine has a few side gigs. She’s a clown and dresses up for parties, not just kid parties. She can be a sexy clown too apparently! She also bakes party cakes. Expensive ones. Can you believe pay $75 or $100 to buy a cake? What happened to going to the grocery store and buying a box of Duncan Hines for a dollar?
It looks like MLM scams used the covid pandemic to their
benefit and signed up a few wannabe girl bosses. The MLM pitch resonates with
the vulnerable and disadvantaged who want to get rich.
It’s interesting how the article talked about the #girlboss
mentality using Instagram accounts to show off an attractive lifestyle.
How many of us have seen Amway cult leaders do that same thing at Amway cult meetings. They taunt us with slideshows of their riches or at least items they rented for a video shoot. Because Amway is all about make belief and fake it till you make it bullshit.
Just like we do around here - the article points out that women are unlikely to find financial freedom in a pyramid scheme. But MLMs are recruiting girlbosses and building them up to believe in the female empowerment this scam will bring them.
Whether it’s Amway or another scam MLM the only certainty for a girlboss is financial and emotional distress. Find another way to become a #girlboss.
Many of the MLMs that are directed towards a female audience (LuLaRoe, and the ones that deal in scents or cosmetics, and such) make a big thing about the "GirlBoss" idea. It's just a scam to hook helpless women who are desperate to make a buck, or who have fantasies that they too can be some kind of financial big shot.
ReplyDeleteMLM scams make use of popular ideas, trendy notions, and ordinary hopes. In the case of Amway, it was always heavily masculine right from the start, and therefore the only women involved were the submissive and subservient wives of male IBOs. Also, Amway always did a lot of Bible-thumping, because they tended to recruit in small-town areas where that sort of approach paid off. Naturally they supported an old-fashioned Bible-thumper view of the husband-wife relationship.
The simple truth is this -- whether you're male or female, you're probably going to be in the 99% of your MLM racket who never make a dime.
Hi Anonymous. You're correct. MLM scams look for trends and how they can twist them to recruit new suckers.
DeleteAs you said most participants whether male or female are going to be in the 99+% who never make money at these pyramid schemes. Stay tuned for a post about a #girlboss who did make money in a scam MLM on the backs of those she scammed.