You conflated legitimate business ventures with MLMs. Also, MLMs really aren't investments.

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Jul 22, 2019
3:54:31pm

jdub FORMER USER

Yes, you should know the risk. The risk is, it's almost universally stupid to do an MLM.

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jdub

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A younger co-worker just informed us all that she is going to retire by age 29.

RSL Cereal Killer

7/22/19 3:00pm

Are you going to tell her that unemployed doesn't mean retired?

bluecheese

7/22/19 3:01pm

I was thinking move back in with her parents by 29.

svenot

7/22/19 3:03pm

RE: A younger co-worker just informed us all that she is going to retire by age 29.

Sea Chicken

7/22/19 3:02pm

Hey if the Kardashians can get rich doing nothing......

TNT

7/22/19 3:02pm

having a certain video released helped. And a famous (infamous) attorney father

Powerbait DPM studnt

7/22/19 3:14pm

Link? Just to better understand the situation

2018grad

7/22/19 3:58pm

link

Powerbait DPM studnt

7/22/19 4:03pm

Oh, and if you care about her, you’ll buy $60k worth(less) of oils from her each

Cougarclaw

7/22/19 3:02pm

I'm just waiting for the invite to her oils show with all of her friends and family.

RSL

7/22/19 3:04pm

if your friends won't buy from you they aren't your friends!!!

Mayor of Cougartown

7/22/19 3:06pm

That is a great goal. Doesn't seem likely, but hey, good for her trying.

BYUtka

7/22/19 3:06pm

I'm worried that it is a pipe dream, and she's going to through away her job and fiance's job for it.

RSL

7/22/19 3:07pm

Not to mention any friends.

Hank Rearden

7/22/19 3:11pm

Young people make mistakes. I wish I had followed my dreams a bit more instead

BYUtka

7/22/19 3:11pm

yup, I regret 2 things regarding my career. 1)I wish I had tried to be a kicker.

Powerbait DPM studnt

7/22/19 3:16pm

I don't get why many here like to trash others for taking a risk

SUAVO

7/22/19 3:30pm

Falling for a scheme is not the same as taking a risk. Do you also wish more people would bet away their life savings

Slim

7/22/19 4:09pm

I actually have been part of a couple of religions who "encouraged" you to

SUAVO

7/22/19 5:11pm

I'm the wrong person to make this argument to haha

Slim

7/22/19 5:12pm

No way, man. I always did the sensible thing and my life is incredible like 65 percent of the time. It pays to do the

Slim

7/22/19 5:42pm

Don't we get mad at Kalani for not taking the risk of throwing the ball more?

Powerbait DPM studnt

7/22/19 5:51pm

The ones doing essential looks from my HS are by far the wealthiest so you

cougfanz

7/22/19 3:13pm

I've shared this story before, and it seems appropriate here

jdub

7/22/19 3:17pm

That's honestly so sad

Dissenter

7/22/19 3:25pm

I know a guy who said the same thing, but he started a construction company.

SUAVO

7/22/19 3:26pm

Are you kidding me? Not even close to a fair comparison. An MLM is specifically DESIGNED so that you won't make money

Slim

7/22/19 3:35pm

That is the case with a lot of start up companies. You're investing in yourself

SUAVO

7/22/19 3:45pm

Trying and lying are not the same thing at all.

Byron McNertney

7/22/19 3:49pm

Isn't a Ponzi scheme where they are lying about where your money comes from?

SUAVO

7/22/19 3:54pm

I've never worked for a company that also required me to be a customer.

Byron McNertney

7/22/19 4:43pm

I'm guessing you had to pay to go to work, probably buy a car so you could get

SUAVO

7/22/19 5:07pm

Oh man, you got me. This whole time I thought you were serious in this thread. Good one.

Byron McNertney

7/23/19 5:19am

Ummm yes it is very different than investing in stocks or opening your own legit business financed by a bank

JohnnyComeLately

7/22/19 3:49pm

That last paragraph sounds like many businesses that haven't been around for 40+

SUAVO

7/22/19 3:53pm

Can you really not see the difference? This isn't a risk that you might lose money because your product or service

Slim

7/22/19 4:02pm

The business of an MLM is recruiting. That is the difference. You don't make money in an MLM selling a product or

Slim

7/22/19 3:56pm

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Buffalo

7/22/19 5:14pm

There's a HUGE difference between the two though, and it's a tad dishonest to conflate them.

jdub

7/22/19 3:42pm

I'm just saying there are risks to investments. I'm not losing sleep over

SUAVO

7/22/19 3:50pm

You conflated legitimate business ventures with MLMs. Also, MLMs really aren't investments.

jdub

7/22/19 3:54pm

So, the question is. what makes the business legitimate?

SUAVO

7/22/19 3:56pm

Their parents were married.

jdub

7/22/19 4:03pm

But that's the point. MLMs often hide the risks and target those who are more vulnerable.

Byron McNertney

7/22/19 3:55pm

Like many businesses do

SUAVO

7/22/19 3:57pm

But the business of an MLM IS recruiting. They are not a middleman to sell a product. That is why people brag and lie

Slim

7/22/19 4:06pm

I can see that about lying about your success, but I've been approached by a

SUAVO

7/22/19 4:48pm

Whether or not you would have been successful in football did not depend on convincing others that they would

Slim

7/22/19 4:54pm

Even worse, it's more like convincing others that they will be able to talk a bunch of people into playing football.

Byron McNertney

7/22/19 4:57pm

Like recruiting at a university?

SUAVO

7/22/19 5:05pm

No. Nothing like that. It is absolutely nothing like that. Not even close.

Slim

7/22/19 5:10pm

It wouldn't have mattered either way, cuz doing what my coaches told me didnt

SUAVO

7/22/19 5:04pm

Also, you missed the part where he completely lied about being able to retire. That was a critical point of the story

jdub

7/22/19 3:44pm

Is this true?

Mitty

7/22/19 11:53pm

Of course it's true. I was there for the whole thing.

jdub

7/23/19 6:03am

Never seen anything like that. Amazing.

Mitty

7/24/19 11:07am

As someone who hates government intervention as a general rule... I'd rejoice over a government mlm ban

Slim

7/22/19 3:29pm

RE: A younger co-worker just informed us all that she is going to retire by age

Cougarclaw

7/22/19 3:29pm

If only the BYU training staff had more faith in oils

Sexytaxman

7/22/19 8:42pm

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