This is classic. It would be helpful for folks to put this into context. Madame CJ Walker was the first self-made woman millionaire in America. She created bea

This is classic. It would be helpful for folks to put this into context. Madame CJ Walker was the first self-made woman millionaire in America. She created beauty products for Black women, a deeply underserved market, and recruited thousands of women to sell them directly to consumers (as well as through salons or mail-order). The women working for her earned good commissions, by all accounts, so that's a bit different. Through history, the opportunity to earn money directly through gig work has been very important to women and their financial independence, as in so many cultures they must fit remunerated work around other caregiving. So, great opportunity -- but with any great opportunity comes sharks and grifters. Multilevel marketing schemes where you've got to recruit others -- great example, big in religious and military families in the US. Slightly less predatory schemes where you nevertheless need to "invest in the product" and pay for inventory on hand, assuming personal risk for the company. And that's not even getting into the personal safety concerns of going into peoples' homes.