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tisonlyi · 10-27-2008, 05:44 PM

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I'll say that when I was very, VERY poor, I looked into Amway.

It's a kind of half-way house between a cult and a pyramid scheme, just far enough away from both to escape prosecution. Still, average earnings of less than $100 dollars per month... Just in case your arithmetic is rusty, the vast majority of people earn less, _much less_ than any mean average on a standard bell curve.

The vast majority of the Amway's consumers are its sales people/victims.

It's one of these things that exist on the letter of the law, not its spirit.

Amway 'works' as a route to financial independence for something significantly less than 1 in 1000 people. Hardly a route to financial independence. Most of the other adverts you'll see in your local paper 'full of ads' will be for fly-by-night or ridiculous other 'employers' looking for people to sell all manner of insane ideas and goods, commission only.

A cheap/free ad in a newspaper to bring in 100 desperate people, 10 of whom may actually be desperate enough to try your crazy scheme and 1 in 100 of which might ever make some money from it... pff..

Ignorance is bliss.

EDIT:

What was the mantra again...???

Oh yeah! Free Enterprise Works! Come to the convention! Hear Arnold Schwarzenegger talk! You can do anything and be anything you dream of!

Fantasists one and all.

10-27-2008, 05:44 PM	#138 (permalink)
tisonlyi Nothing	Amway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I'll say that when I was very, VERY poor, I looked into Amway. It's a kind of half-way house between a cult and a pyramid scheme, just far enough away from both to escape prosecution. Still, average earnings of less than $100 dollars per month... Just in case your arithmetic is rusty, the vast majority of people earn less, _much less_ than any mean average on a standard bell curve. The vast majority of the Amway's consumers are its sales people/victims. It's one of these things that exist on the letter of the law, not its spirit. Amway 'works' as a route to financial independence for something significantly less than 1 in 1000 people. Hardly a route to financial independence. Most of the other adverts you'll see in your local paper 'full of ads' will be for fly-by-night or ridiculous other 'employers' looking for people to sell all manner of insane ideas and goods, commission only. A cheap/free ad in a newspaper to bring in 100 desperate people, 10 of whom may actually be desperate enough to try your crazy scheme and 1 in 100 of which might ever make some money from it... pff.. Ignorance is bliss. EDIT: What was the mantra again...??? Oh yeah! Free Enterprise Works! Come to the convention! Hear Arnold Schwarzenegger talk! You can do anything and be anything you dream of! Fantasists one and all. __________________ "I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place." - Winston Churchill, 1937 --{ORLY?}-- Last edited by tisonlyi; 10-27-2008 at 05:50 PM..