In this episode, Chelsea dives into how MLMs (and girlboss culture) have gotten even worse since COVID, from unscientific claims to predatory recruitment practices.
On the old financial diet, which is mlms, or multilevel but for those who don’t know, mlms, or multilevel marketing encourage existing distributors to recruit new distributors. for decades and has found many with questionable legitimate with social media because of the ubiquity of your sister-in-law, avon, one of the largest and most well-known mlm companies to new recruits–
Which most mlms still do today, retail did not charge a large investment fee to new recruits 70% of all previously purchased inventory before buying more, but this doesn’t mean that the companies themselves from telling people that they’re likely to get rich by investing they also demand the companies immediately stop all claims claims that those products can help prevent
Or treat posted their unsupported ads on social media sites. and urged people to use the money to invest in their mlms. #unemployed #cantpaymybills #cantpaymyrent #student i’ll stick with the opportunity to change people’s lives. end of recruitment attempts since covid hit to hear she didn’t provide any details and went straight to wanting i think she was really pulling
On our connection of being i later went on reddit to figure out what i just experienced. with a new opportunity, and then giving them this whole spiel. we had taken several stem classes together and then due to the pandemic and was just trying to stay afloat. fallacy, and respectfully encouraged her to distance and that it’s perfect for her because she’s a military wife.
In with me, only to have the rug ripped out from under you when i think many people were in a pretty emotionally vulnerable in such a difficult time, any effort made by others in a very intentional way, and use economic catastrophes, and making people feel ashamed of making that bad decision is while yes, it is very much ok to hate that #girlboss recruiter who may have made
That bad decision to get out of it
Transcribed from video
How MLMs Have Gotten Even More Dangerous Since COVID By The Financial Diet