Childfree taken to an extreme

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[–]handbananasrevenge 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Years ago, a coworker tried to get me into what was essentially Amway. To humor him, I went to a few of their “meetings”, which were basically like struggle sessions.

One thing that struck me about most of the people there was they all seemed to think that working for a living was somehow beneath them, while at the same time being some of the most unimpressive people you’ll ever meet.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've been to a few. They're usually enjoyable for me but I have a perverse joy in essentially being an asshole and roughing them up a bit intellectually. They're quite good at what they do though very difficult to engage in reasonable discussions.

One I went to I was curious so started asking a bunch of questions about how it worked then was taken aside and basically said it's rude for new people to ask questions. Yeah lol sure. If you can't answer the new people's questions doesn't that mean you've not prepared good answers for the basic shut people will ask?

Eh, there isn't much point in arguing with these people when they're convinced. It's hard too, some of the nicest people I know, just really pleasant and generous people really get sucked into them and it's almost painful going in and crushing their dreams by explaining basically, all that shit they said are stupid concerns that everyone who is in the know laughs at how silly they are, that's the special coat that only smart people can see mate, you're smart right?

[–]Femaleisnthateful 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My ex-SIL got suckered into one of the makeup ones. She can't hold any real job but thought she was going to make money selling makeup online out of her filthy apartment.

Spent probably $1000 on a 'startup kit' and sold nothing.

There are a lot of similarities between MLMs and the gender deception for me. Naive people lovebombed and sold a fantasy for the benefit of other people who profit off of them.