> After all, people with a lot of free time, guaranteed "income" and a lack of driving goals seems the perfect candidate pool for cults. From my own experience

> After all, people with a lot of free time, guaranteed "income" and a lack of driving goals seems the perfect candidate pool for cults. From my own experience with a borderline cult, the people most vulnerable to cults are ones that have had trauma of some sort. Economic prosperity was kind of all across the board, now that I reflect on it. I do agree that "lack of driving goal" is a big factor. Not an expert on this topic; I just think it's an interesting tangent: what exactly are the biggest factors that make someone susceptible to joining a cult?