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Never Take the Meeting: How I Tried (and Failed) to Infiltrate a Mentorship Cult
- linuxftw 7y agoFirstly, this reads like made-up trash. Author goes undercover to waste time with MLM scammers for reasons unknown. I suppose the intended purpose was a form of freelance journalism?
- mruts 7y agoI mean he’s in college so he’s probably not that busy.
- magic_beans 7y agoAre MLMs much more common in smaller cities/towns? I can't imagine this ever working in New York or SF.
- Psyonic 7y agoI don't know about "working", but I was approached by someone like this at a bookstore in Cambridge, MA.
- staticautomatic 7y agoOne of these people approached me at a Starbucks in Norcal. I debated doing the same thing the author did but thought better of it. I could tell immediately it was a scheme, and although I figured the odds were low that I'd be putting myself in physical danger I couldn't shake the fear that they might harass or threaten me or otherwise make my life difficult if I got in too deep and then bailed. Like they might be an actual cult. Weirder and worse shit happens to people all the time. Look at Scientology.