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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nMLM’s are marketing machines that have used the entrepreneur bandwagon and selling the idea of controlling your own destiny\/ownership. While some may be legitimate, a great number of them are just thinly veiled pyramid schemes. As you move up, you are called an ‘owner’ but are always working in the pyramid – just with a different title. Many of those in these organizations make little money despite working insanely long hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Researchers have found these businesses are increasingly operated with the same methods as cults<\/a>. Yes, cults. They push endless positivity, promote a step-by-step plans for entrepreneurial ‘salvation’, invent their own terminology, and create in\/out dynamics to isolate and keep people from questioning what they’re doing. All techniques cults use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s worth reading about these techniques, because as researchers are finding, these cult-like control techniques are increasingly spreading to social media, business, political groups, and social justice movements<\/a>. It might be time to move past the word ‘cult’ as people don’t realize that the techniques can be used to ensnare anyone for almost anything – and they pull in even the smartest people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ve written about how startup culture often has this same cult-like atmosphere<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read more about the truth behind direct marketing here: https:\/\/thedevilcorp.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n