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Because they follow the law and publish how unlikely you are to make money with them. It isn't illegal to take money from stupid people. https://www.amway.com/
by cde-v 4y ago
Because they follow the law and publish how unlikely you are to make money with them. It isn't illegal to take money from stupid people.
https://www.amway.com/en_US/income-disclosure https://www.amway.com/en_US/income-disclosure
https://www.marykay.ca/en-ca/pages/earnings-representation https://www.marykay.ca/en-ca/pages/earnings-representation
https://library.youngliving.com/en/us/U.S.-Annual-Income-Disclosure-Statement/134978856 https://library.youngliving.com/en/us/U.S.-Annual-Income-Dis...
https://www.lularoe.com/lularoe-income-disclosure-statement https://www.lularoe.com/lularoe-income-disclosure-statement
- Dalewyn 4y agoI once read that business is the art of ripping someone off without pissing them off, and I've since made that a part of my life philosophy because it's very accurate. These businesses are simply more devious manifestations of that art.
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- ikekkdcjkfke 4y agoWhat about creating something of value?
- vkou 4y ago> Because they follow the law Because they wrote the law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amway#Politics_and_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amway#Politics_and_culture [1] [1] And if the surname DeVos seems familiar, that's because Betsy Devos was picked to be the Secretary of Education.
- Llamamoe 4y ago> It isn't illegal to take money from stupid people. I don't care, it should be. Humans shouldn't be expected to be experts in every domain of their lives just to avoid being exploited.
- vasco 4y agoYou don't have to be an expert, you just have to know that things that look to good to be true are scams.
- CallMeJim 4y agoAnd if you don't know, this is how you learn!
- cde-v 4y agoThey should be expected to have common sense. If they don't then this is just economic darwinism in action.
- Llamamoe 4y agoSo the elderly, impaired, less intelligent people just straight up don't deserve to survive in our world?
- squokko 4y agoIt's illegal for a strong person to take money from a weak person by yanking their wallet away from them, and this isn't that different.
- cde-v 4y agoExcept in this case the strong person fully disclosed up front that they would most likely take the wallet and run, but there is a chance they would give it back with twice the money. The weak person still made a choice.
- d110af5ccf 4y agoWell when you put it that way, we have lots of regulations surrounding gambling for precisely the reason that a significant fraction of people hopelessly "fall for it".
- epgui 4y ago"it's not illegal because it follows the law" is a completely useless tautology in the context of the parent comment...