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Even here in the U.S., I've known several people, with good stable money making careers to give it all up and start selling vitamins or beauty care products or
by bane 9y ago
Even here in the U.S., I've known several people, with good stable money making careers to give it all up and start selling vitamins or beauty care products or whatever. It's truly bizarre and the desperate sell-to-everyone-all-the-time behavior that seems to appear afterwards drives all their friends away. I'm not sure what these schemes seem to be exploiting but man if it doesn't smell like religious radicalization.
- vog 9y agoI wonder if there is any way to redirect all that dedication to something that is constructive and good for society.
- yorwba 9y agoMaybe an education pyramid scheme? You receive training in useful skills, but only if you keep teaching your newly acquired knowledge to multiple other people.
- uoaei 9y agoThis sounds like an interesting way to disseminate a lot of incorrect "facts" very quickly with almost no traceability.
- yorwba 9y agoYou mean like a chain letter? Usually, incorrect "facts" aren't incentivizing enough on their own to keep sharing them, which is why most of those viral memes spread quickly and die out quickly. I was thinking more in terms of a long-term commitment that provides enough benefits on its own to offset the time and effort spent by each participant on spreading it to others.