IMO, it's overrated. The main issue is pretty much constant interactions with the kind of people who could be sucked into your cult. Even average people are intolerable. Cultists are like a concentrated version of average humans.

You'd have to be a psychological mess to not avoid that like the plague, notwithstanding the sex and money. Or if you weren't before you would be shortly. An associate wanted me to help him start a cult back in the day. The more I thought about it, the less appealing it became. Sex with a cultist would be like sex with the mental equivalent of a child. Ewwww. And they would be worshipping you all the time, which is disgusting. I want equals, not subservient beggars plucking at my legs for scraps of attention.

Anyway, that all was a thing for awhile. Pre-internet, post-home computers. You'd see cultists everyday around here. If you remember the Breatharians, I paid 5 bucks to go see the guy do his first talk on the west coast. Haha, imagine being in a room with 30 other people who really want to learn how to stop eating, and acquire all nutrients via the breath. "I have to be careful walking past restaurants or I can get too full." - Wiley Brooks (street nigger from NYC who found his ultimate scam) See: Breatharian Institute