I would imagine these parasitic companies have practiced their psychopathic techniques on a host of desperate people until they found the best ways to string pe

I would imagine these parasitic companies have practiced their psychopathic techniques on a host of desperate people until they found the best ways to string people along through the whole process. "Just set up this home office, it will pay for itself in a month!" "This one week training, and then you'll be taking calls in no time!" This and that, and also, sunk cost fallacy is helluva drug, and you don't need to be mathematically illiterate to fall for that.