Hiring someone to paint your house? Sure, it’s worth it or not. But anyone in the advice-giving business can easily end up in a relationship with their clients

Hiring someone to paint your house? Sure, it’s worth it or not. But anyone in the advice-giving business can easily end up in a relationship with their clients that is more like a therapist. And therapy is extremely prone to creating unexpected levels of influence on decision-making. Remove all professional standards, licensing bodies, or even job titles, and of course the MLM-type manipulators will show up to the party.