John Oliver's takedown on MLM's

I don't understand how people can fall for these things... but then I don't understand how someone can fall for a Nigerian money-wiring scam either.

Oliver's condescending arrogance almost makes me want to start selling Amway.

Saw this last night and loved it

There's a new one now in Houston that's somehow based on the deregulated energy market there. They're just another one of the 100s of "electric companies" you can choose from there, except their marketing is done via the pyramid scheme model. Real bizarre. A guy I went to high school with, who became a cop and has no degree, quit the force and joined up with this energy company pyramid scheme. Perfect target of these type of things. They go to Joel Osteen Megachurch, so they're natural suckers. I feel bad for them.

a few years back, i got a random call from a person i know through work. she told me she wanted to know if i would like to participate in an interesting investment meeting about a new product. internally i was like PYRAMID SCHEME RECRUITING PARTY!

i went

it was Limu

it was glorious

Is this like selling knives or It Works! ? According to facebook anyone with a little effort can work from home and retire in 5 years by selling body wraps.

Someone tried to get me into one of these during my undergrad. I was getting shitty hours at my sales job for not enough pay and I was young and dumb, so it tempted me. Then the meeting with the guy was held at Starbucks and he drove up in a 10 year old Honda CRX. I quickly realized the guy was full of shite and was not making money like he claimed to be. If he had driven a fancy car and had an office I might have fallen for it.

5 downvotes....uh oh, are there some MLM shills here who got their feelings hurt?

Yeah, I've noticed that many MLM distributors will shame and/or strong-arm their recruits from the get go...I don't know if it's either a cheap motivational tactic, or just desperation on the distributors' part, knowing they're already in too deep themselves.

When I was at LSU a friend convinced me to go to a Primerica presentation. Bill Whittle, who many know in BR is loaded as shite, came and presented to a few of us. He just eloquently laid out how it was a pyramid scheme

At least I got free TJ Rib's. I pleaded with my friend to walk away as it was clearly a pyramid scheme, and they had him trained with some bs explanation as to why it wasn't. Needless to say I ran into him months later, and he had quit

What Oliver did in 30 minutes Robin did in 30 seconds on Teen titans Go!

Teen Titans Pyramid Scheme