Some of my Army friends tried to recruit me into an MLM that sells cell phone service. My response was "Last time I fell for a scam like that, I ended up in Iraq for a year." They didn't like that.
I didn’t know they were a name brand at all. I’ve called any plastic tub that stores leftovers tupperware. We have a “tupperware” drawer in our house, mostly full of Costco tubs and empty sour cream containers.
Step 2: Spend millions lobbying Congress so that they prevent the FTC from investigating, regulating, or outlawing them, and hire outgoing senior FTC staff to get insider connections and information.
Or the quicker way is star up ur own independent local leg oh the company. Be the one giving the talks and motivating people selling them dream. It's they who are the ones making the money. And you don't see them going out recruiting anybody 💁🏾
Home Depot says that they run on an "Inverse pyramid" where the CEO and corporate is at the bottom, and the floor associates and customers are at the top, due to their low wages, a common joke among employees is saying "an inverse pyramid is just a funnel."
Lol..that's so funny because some of the other "legitimate" companies I know basically thinks like this too aside from Home Depot. And I guess it makes sense why. If anyone here is ever involved in management or some type of management training....you know that the people underneath you plays an important role in your success. In a way, it is a inverse pyramid. If they don't do their job, that's basically like saying you're not doing your job effectively. Not that you are, but point is....if you're a leader or manager of some type, you're most likely to get the blame if something goes wrong. Funny how you brought up the funnel. I never thought about it that way before. If a business is a pyramid, bad. If a business is a inverse pyramid, that's bad too. If a crypto-currency is becoming too centralized, that's hitting a rough spot. If a crypto-currency is becoming too decentralized same thing. When it comes to "systems".. Centralized Systems vs Decentralized Systems ..it turns out, balance, matters most in any type of system or structure. Fairness matters most. When the trustless becomes trustworthy....that says something. When the so called "trustees" becomes trustless, that says somethings as well. Their is no way to tell if a system or structure is actually trust worthy unless you're in the system yourself or their is enough evidence to back up "fairness".
Walmart treats you better than Home Depot. Hd starts you with 20 hours a week, Walmart gives me 40 hours a week and I barely started. I would rather be exploited by Walmart.
@@tacticallemon7518that was the fuel of choice for much of the region, basically every time they mention Oil in the bible, Torah, or Quran is taking about Olive oil.
I am an Orthodox Christian and I never got the whole thing with being fanatically obsessed with the bible, most of it is metaphorical, it's important of course, but prayer, the Divine Liturgy and various rites are significantly more important, it's not an instruction manual. Granted it's mostly a protestant thing, so I wouldn't really know.
I almost got roped into working for Primerica last year. The red flags were kind of scary. 1. Almost nobody there was older than 25. The guy recruiting me was YOUNGER than me by 2 years. 2. The company's entire shtick is helping people balance their budgets. Something you can literally do yourself. 3. They ask you to sign up for an app that you pay $100 a month towards. 4. They played an orientation video entirely dedicated to pointing out how they're NOT a pyramid scheme or scam. 5. They asked me not to tell any of my family members about them, as family members get "overprotective." By the time they gave me #5, I noped the hell out of it.
Dude the same thing happened to me. What's worse is they target military peeps, and try to cast doubt on your military life insurance to get you to buy theirs IN ADDITION to the insurance you already pay.
Omg dude, one of friend at the college also got this 'community' which the goal is to make college students become financially independent. I got no problem of it's some entrepreneurial community but i dunno. They are very secretive about what they actually gives the members for them to be financially independent. For more information i have to direct contact their phone number. The moment I found a member on youtube talking about gaining more member each month and NOT EVEN saying any product is just no-no to me. This must be some ponzi scheme or something.
Hahaha it’s like when Walgreens or Amazon makes their employees watch a video on how it’s in employees’ best interest not to join unions, and that the fact that there aren’t unions yet is somehow proof of how awesome the jobs are. Money makes people basically insane.
Yeah they tried to get me in 2003. I walked out of their “conference” and said “nope” and they told me to pass their info on to “someone who actually wants to be successful”. Scary.
This is perfect! I used to get so pissed about the uninformed wonks in my social sphere but now I try to let some shit go unless it’s going to cause harm to someone. This channel lets me vicariously get some frustrations out haha. Oh, I know essential oils are bullshit but in my teens (like 18 years ago, damn) I used tea tree oil for acne because it’s just a really strong astringent. I think it smells pleasant as well like a way stronger eucalyptus oil.
@@SobrietyandSolace what, does it help a tiny bit with skin health, so he's not allowed to criticize the mlm for implying that you can replace healthcare with smelly lipids?
So, fun fact: that essential oil toothpaste can give you terrible canker sores! My mom is pretty big into Young Living. When I told my mom about the terrible sores I developed that lasted for two weeks, her solution was to PUT MORE ESSENTIAL OILS ON THE SORES. They didn't stop until I switched to normal people toothpaste.
Christ my mother was the same way. Gave me tea tree oil when all those soaps and stuff caused problems. She insisted it was contamination from regular soaps from my school peers’ clothes… Mysteriously it all went away after I moved out and just use regular detergents 🤔 (No MLMs though, just bought that health marketing super hard. She regularly bought from them from others, but knew not to sign up.)
Imagine the conversation with the sponsor trying to put in that line. "Come on, it's relatable, it'll get you more sales!" "Dude, you're literally dissing our brand during a paid advertisement." "Uhh... so?" "Okay dude, you're right. Fine, just do it."
We had and used them regularly for years and by and large we kept the lids. Unless I accidentally stuck them in the wrong place in the dishwasher and it was on high heat so they melted.
Yes, but...they will have their eyes on the inheritance surprise...I’d be quite happy to lend my name to just about any product, if doing so would get me serious money.
@@TJCampbell78 it's definitely true lol. Money flows in and up in these systems, if you're not at the top (ie. One of the very first members) you're getting drained
They have a whole story behind the name of that oil, I enjoyed the story and if it's true, I have absolutely no issue with it. However that blend has oils in it that are not safe for people with sensitive skin and even tho they tell you that, some people don't know they can't handle it until it's too late.
@@FreggFaerie It's more of a folk legend and there are a few theories as to its origins. So while the story is unlikely to be true, Young Living didn't make it up. They just took the herbs used in four thieves vinegar, made an essential oil version, and tacked on the old legend to help market the product.
Someone brought some Theives cough drops into work, and one day, I decided to try one. I felt sick all afternoon. Later, I learned from my wife that they are an essential oils product, and that Thieves oils are potentially harmful. Perhaps I felt sick for other reasons that afternoon, and I may be just curious enough to try them again someday to see what happens, but all in all, I'm just going to stick with generic cough drops from the supermarket if I have to instead.
I had no idea Tupperware was an MLM, I didn't even know it was a brand name, just thought it was a generic name for a food container. Also my god that TH-cam and Patreon ad at the end was perfect.
Tupperware was seen as the quality product for years, so it is almost a generic (like "Band-Aid", "Kool-Aid", "Crock-Pot", "Bubble Wrap", etc.). I got in trouble for throwing away one of mom's Tupperware containers as a child, which was how I learned.
I guess in Western countries brand names overtake the names of actual type of product like that. That is interesting, but to outsiders, even sometimes from other Anglophone country, that may be confusing in comparison to, say, plastic food containers, adhesive bandages, flavoured drink mix, slow cookers, and I guess still bubble wrap? Foodstuffs expcially, since I still wonder what exactly Marmite is.
@@TenositSergeich yeah i think it comes from being constantly advertised to at very young ages it's strange because even if I buy a generic brand of flavored drink powder I still call it koolaid
@@TenositSergeich It's a natural result of language drift. Generally speaking, after a while people just don't realize the words they use are old brand names. It's not specific to any language or region of the world.
It was so difficult, finishing watching this. I was raging internally. I've had people from 3 different MLMs try to recruit me. The first one, Reliv, waa before id ever heard the term "Multi Level Marketing scheme". I passed on that one because I was 300+lbs and they wanted me to sell a product based on its weight loss and health benefits. I told them I couldn't sell it to myself, let alone other people. I got wise when they said I didn't have to sell the product to make money, that I could just make money off recruiting. They wanted me to push this shit on everyone I knew which I found suspicious and annoying. I listened to one of their stupid conferences calls. They all sounded indoctrinated. It was weird. And this doctor that supposedly developed their product was conveniently in a different country so you couldn't talk to him. Their product was a supplement and so wasn't regulated by the FDA or anything. No one i spoke with could give me anything more than vague suggestions on what it might help with. No specific treatments for specific anything (seeing this video explained why). And they wanted a ton of money for one of these stupid starter kits and I wasnt willing to come off it. A friend of mine got bilked by Herbalife. While he was selling it, he told me all about how it had helped him lose weight. Told me he'd replaced his daily Dr. Pepper intake with it. I was like "duh, sodas are super bad for you. Look at me." He was damn near fanatical about it. Next time I saw him, he'd gotten wise and stopped selling it. Thankfully they didn't get him for more than a few hundred bucks. I hate these MLMs. It's so predatory. Its upsetting how many people they trick per year.
@@TheAlison1456 Typically we call things that emit ionizing radiation, to be radioactive. You are emitting ionizing radiation. You emit a bit of gamma radiation, as well as a tiny bit of beta radiation. Alpha radiation produced in you almost always gets re-absorbed by you, so almost no alpha radiation will be emitted by you. The only way you wouldn't be emitting Ionizing radiation would be if you only have stable isotopes of atoms in you. Almost everything you interact with, unless purified to only contained stable isotopes, is a tiny bit radioactive. Eating a banana will give you a radiation dose. In fact a funny unit used is the Banana Equivalence Dose (BED); which is about equal 0.1 µSv; or about 10^-7 Sv. A chest X-ray is about 200 BED.
My basketball coach tried to cure my bone cancer with Young Living lmfao. I'm fine now, no thanks to the MANY pyramid scheming "boss babes" who tried to tell my mom that oils would fix me.
"Now.. I use the whole packet" Honestly i've never heard anything so empowering yet grounded in reality and at this point i dont know if I'm joking or not
My mom has gotten herself into the Terrā life style. The lavender that is constantly being vaporized burns my nose. And she is constantly ingesting and applying oregano to boost her immune system. I cannot be anywhere near her when she has that stuff on without risking suffocation.
@@BabbleCacophony Try showing her the video, it might open her up to a conversation about finance, but more importantly you could voice your unfortunate side-effects. 😁
I watched this video and then less than a month later I met with someone for a "job opportunity". They were explaining how it worked and when they drew a triangle while explaining how everything worked, along with being very hesitant to mention the name of the company, it was obvious what was happening. If I hadn't seen this vid, I probably wouldn't have been any wiser.
I’ve heard stories of people saying drugs saved their lives because it was a form of self harm instead of going whole hog and shooting themselves. They recovered from depression which helped them kick the drug habit too.
Grant Nitz God willing 🤞🏻. Also, Ethical or not, “Fuck the nanny state but yeah the government *should* tell us which psychoactive substances are okay to put in our own consenting grown-ass bodies. Alcohol is fine, even though it causes most “murders of passion,” and a sizable chunk of suicides...and practically nothing else. Glue? I guess? If you pretend you give a shit about model airplanes.
Also I love how you need like 10k to join them shits like that one company selling garbage leggins while you could just go to any used clothes shop and buy literally kilograms of Lularou or whatever its called for few dollars and resell it without joining shit, this way you can actually make a buck out of it (but keep in mind considering the absolute garbage quality of their products, selling each pair for like a dollar or two would probably be the only way to get rid of it). Its that simple and yet people (well women mostly) eat that shit up and just spend thousands of dollars for a "licence" to sell terrible clothes that they have to pay retail price to even get... how moronic you have to be to not only miss that its a pyramid scheme but also not see that you could do the same thing on your own and literally make like 2000% more profit by just reselling used clothes...
@@aw2584 It's not just "women, mostly". But they (MLMs) prey upon the most assailable, like military wives, new Hispanic immigrants, etc. It's insidious and it's disgusting.
Um whatever you’re just a hater I asked brad if we’re a pyramid scheme when we met at Starbucks and he said if we were a pyramid scheme would he be driving a Camry, explain that buddy
yo! is brad still rocking that '09 Camry, toight. Just need to get 35 more people in my downline and I can get the Gold Emerald Elite level and get the opportunity to purchase the Diamond Captain package, after I sell that bad boy imma be rolling in a Camry of my own.
Just don't try to lubricate anything with it, or mix it with actual lubricants. It is very effective at grease and oil removal, which is also why it will happily thin out and evacuate the lubricant from any set of gears or chain you spray it on, a good way to destroy them.
Matthew McKellar only things I would use WD for is 1) breaking something loose, 2) cleaning some gunked up stuff, and 3) protection on something like a folding knife, where wear isn’t a serious issue
Yeah, I was waiting for the screams. I know he believes eos are fake, but I can assure you, one drop in his eye will let him know that its not just olive oil. lol
Right. The fact that they encourage you to live "lavishly" and flaunt it goes against simple Christian values...so right there should throw up RED FLAGS
@@rburk121 True, but that train has long since sailed. "Would you care to peruse some propaganda about this scheme, it's totally not illegal!" just doesn't have a good ring to it.
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Women's sizes are even numbers. Odd numbers are "junior" or teen sizes. It's basically the clothing equivalent of YA books, it's just style/audience distinction.
@@erraticonteuse Then why are sizes 5, 7, 9, 13, and 15 included? I feel like I'm asking a dumb question but I'm really clueless about women's clothes.
As someone who grew up with parents in these MLM companies, specifically Amway, it's literally suffocating living in the same house because you know what they're doing is _wrong_ but they're so deeply in the hole is there really any safe way to take them out without making them realize they spent 20 years in a scam and ruining any sort of self confidence they might've built during this time? How do you even recover from something like that??
I'm an A/V engineer with 40 years of experience. If I had a dime for every time I've sat at the back of a dimly lit ballroom and listened to Amway and/or other con men selling some variation of a Ponzi scheme at a low rent Holiday Inn on a beautiful Saturday, I'd own our galaxy. I finally came to a conclusion about the folks doing the shill. They would stand up there and show slides of their perfect family, mansion, Mercedes, island, space program, or whatever in that low rent Holiday Inn on a Saturday, and I finally asked myself why they were doing that, and not back at the mansion water skiing on dolphins with their blonde trophy wife and 2.5 kids? It seems like they already have enough to get through their twilight years, and they didn't seem overly greedy. In fact, most didn't do a complete hard sell, but rather played them like a Southern Baptist tent revival evangelist, alternating between praising them for their obvious smarts and financial savvy for merely wandering into the room, showing them the "hard numbers"(possibly the most common and repeated phrase across all meetings over the years) in a soft way, then revving them up to an emotional feel-good peak, the highest of which signaled the end of my ennui and got me ready to bug out. My conclusion was that they were there because it was who they were on a basic level, people with a deep need to convince other people of the righteousness of their crusade buy informing the American public that they are millionaires in waiting, and that it takes hard work plus believing in yourself to get there. The hard sell was that if you weren't successful the only reason was you weren't trying or believing hard enough. The religious overtones were heavy, as the overwhelming majority were righteous and upstanding in the eyes of The Lord, many born again Christians. Damn. If I had all that time back it would add up to 10 years. Fun fact: Reaganomics was the largest Ponzi scheme in human history, transferring all the money from the middle class at the base up to the 1% from 1980 until the money ran out in 2008, nearly destroying our country, much less the economy.
I actually worked in a Young Living Warehouse as a temp (without realizing what it was) and after a few months I realized it was total BS. You could definitely describe it as a cult.
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I’ll never forget being in the green room for a Christmas service and barely being able to breathe. I have asthma and sensitive lungs, so I asked them to turn off the diffuser. “BuT yOuR cAnT bE aLlErGiC tO eSsEnTiAl OiLs.” -says an idiot to someone literally gasping for breath.
god its awful... every skincare line designed for sensitive skin or targetted towards sustainability uses them too.. and im topically allergic to most of them lmao.. as someone studying to work in skincare it drives me insane becuase theyre SO commonly irritating to skin and cause issues for people with allergies or respratory issues..
Best part about the recruiting nonsense? I once got called by a recruiter who said they got my information from my old school. I had just finished university and had no idea why they would give my contacts. In another situation, they said it was via a mutual friend who said I was looking for a new job. I hadn't seen or spoken to that friend in over a year. So yeah, the first thing they did was lie.
The thing I love about this channel is that it is reality based and informative, not ideological. I'm impressed with the knowledge you have about such a wide range of subjects. And I love that everything is straightforward and no-nonsense. So when you lumped tea tree oil's uses together with strange claims about blue light, I glitched a little, because I thought those were true ( the tea tree, not the blue light!) I googled and apparently Wedmd and the Mayo clinic confirm that there seems to be evidence for its anti-fungal uses. My own personal experience is that for insects, it is the next best thing to 100% deet, which you can't get anymore. And I care deeply about the effectiveness of my insect repellent! Sooo, just because someone unreliable says it, doesn't mean it is false.
You wanna know what I've found to have strange anti-fungal properties? Dog saliva. Had bad athlete's foot when I played baseball as a teen. Came home one day and took off my socks and shoes and just sat for a minute. My feet were on fire. My dog that I'd had since early childhood and had gotten for free from a shelter just walked up and sniffed my feet before she started licking them. I was too tired to be very forceful in telling her no and by the time I worked up the energy to do so I noticed the part of my foot she was licking didn't burn at all. It made me curious so I let her keep going. She sniffed out all the fungus and I guess she kinda ate it all right off my feet. She knew exactly where it was and didn't lick above the ankle, either she knew it was bothering me or she found it delicious, I still don't know. When she was done she just walked off and my feet felt normal. I'd never been more surprised by anything. I'd never even heard rumors that dog saliva could do anything for anyone. After that any time I had a flare up I'd do the same thing before I showered and combined with putting my cleats and shoes in plastic bags and leaving them in the freezer overnight I stopped having athlete's foot for long periods of time. Wasn't permanent and I still had to freeze the shoes or wash them, but yeah it was surprisingly effective. And as far as immediate relief goes I've yet to find an athlete's foot spray or powder that does a better job than a dog's tongue. It's probably got something to do with how strong the bacteria in a dog's mouth is so it's not without risk if you have an open blister on your foot or something but it can help. So don't pay for fungus relief, get a free dog and just be weird.
Having joined Amway about 10 years ago, it took about a year to really figure out what the tree of "downline" would look like for a certain level, and what would be going on for those people. That's when it really became clear how exponential the recruiting needs to be. On the plus side, even then there was an official (little bit air quotes) policy of really selling a certain amount of product monthly - but a lot more of the self-use built in. The real value in the end, from all the materials aimed at teaching you how to sell / overcome objections/ etc was that I got an insight I'd never had before into the techniques sales people use *against* you, that I'd never been good at dealing with before. That became quite useful defensive information in my life.
Several times in this vid i was like "Okay here comes the lame add for the sponsor..." only to be reminded that its part of the story :D your fake pitches are good, maaaan
For a moment, I actually thought he was going to do a livestream for the leggings. I almost threw up in my mouth, and sought therapy. Glad I waited. Brilliant stuff.
in 2009, after losing my job during the financial crisis, I was applying for jobs. So when I got a call back for an interview, I was stoked. Then confused when I saw the address was on a residential street three blocks from my house. I showed up anyway because, well, financial crisis, and it was a pitch for an MLM and me and the other four people there all thought we were there for a job interview and we realized we'd all applied for a tech company.
OMFG! I JUST saw an actual better-life store front (the place that makes smoothies) set up in my home town with signs and labels consistent with what Knowing Better said they’d look like. It’s so awesome how right you are about all this better-life bullshit
Honestly essential oils aren't that bad per se. They do have a use to give something a nice smell and they're used in industry for for example perfume. However they obviously don't have any medical properties beyond placebo and if you want to buy them MLMs are the worst place to do so as they're incredibly overpriced.
A friend of mine is in one of these, and his relentless positivity is how I know it is a MLM... A short personal story: when I was an Airman, one my Sergeants had me meet this guy in a hotel bar. This guy was dressed up in a suit, and he had great hair, talked fast. He gave me his sales pitch, and by the end, I figured out it was Amway. I didn't get near it (I did, however, get near no-load mutual funds...) I'm very thankful that young Airman made the right decision all those years ago, I don't know why, I just got lucky I guess. Now, an Amway Heiress is a Cabinet Secretary... Go figure.
I wish I knew what an MLM was before one sucked me up. I hadn’t even heard of pyramid schemes. Luckily, I refused to sell to people who actually mattered to me because I knew I didn’t want money to enter those relationships, so I didn’t lose friends over it. I also didn’t lose “too much” money ($650 really was too much for me back then though. I was making $16k a year and very desperate for money) so I was eventually able to claw my way out of that mess.
That last part about anyone who doesn’t agree being a “hater” made me lol My roommate is real deep into the arbonne cult mentality, and lashed out at me for not supporting women and her ~~industry -because I tweeted about someone at a doterra conference who was spamming her Instagram about it. Anywho, we were moving in a month anyways, and my roommate told me not to ever talk to her again haha #byehun
A friend of mine was talking to me about a former highschool classmate that became a door to door tupperware salesman. He started explaining how said former classmate made money, such as recruitment, and when I tried explaining that what he is describing sounds like an MLM scheme and he went into a state of cognitive dissonance and completely denied entertaining the idea. It was good that he was just leaving because things immediately became awkward. It's pretty shocking that, despite how well known they are, so many people really don't know what an MLM is.
I deadass though essential oils were just used to make soap. That's what my family always used them for. Who the hell thinks that what breaks down to nice smelling water is gonna cure then of cancer. Like yeah, God gave us plants and oils and shit, but he also gave us doctors. Also as someone who's gotten essential oils in their eye before, watching you pretend to drop the oil in your eye gave me anxiety
I had one hit me up, and tried to recruit me but since I work in construction I told him I don't have anytime for that, fast forward a couple years he hit me up again looking for work haha, he really needed that money because he was the best apprentice I had 😂
I saw this literally the night of the day I watched Daredevil season 3 with my mom and only today realized that the end of the theme song was supposed to be a heartbeat.
I know he already did the math, but I thought it would do people good if someone showed the math... to give them a chance to read it and really let it sink in (you know... in case anyone is ever considering joining up to one of these things). So... *doing the Quick math on LuLaRoe...* each piece costs you about $18 (based on the statement of having to buy 175 pieces per month, which costs $3,150). So at the Trainer Level, you earn $52,353.30... but you have to buy 250 pieces per month, which costs you $4,500... which means you have to buy $54,000. So, in reality... *even after all your hard work devoted to selling these items FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR... YOU ENDED UP STILL OWING LuLaRoe $1,646.70*
They sucker these people into buying brochures, websites, signage, attending shows, attending conventions. So the hit is much larger and what if they fall under that level since recruits drop like flies? The distributor = buyer = mark. Caveat emptor!
A lot of my family fell in with 4Life. They basically came out as hunbots. One uncle went back to working as an electrician (and insisted MLMs were great). The other is pushing 60 and our grandma still cleans his house.
Ah, back when I JUST got out of high school I remember when someone tried to pull me into an mlm. Good thing I was too skeptical. Kids these days have it good with all this information. You’re doing good work 👍 I hope this decade we see the death of mlm’s. I feel bad for the gullible/desperate people who get twisted into it.
"It sounds like an vital nutrient or mineral that your body needs to survive." No, it sounds like an element a necromancer would need to reanimate a corps.
@@KnowingBetter All I can say is WOW! How did you get that past them. It appears that you've just body slammed both skill share and youtube. You're a brave man. I'm a fan. Looking forward to the next video.
@@KnowingBetter It's almost as if they realize sponsorship pitches work better when they're tailored to the creator _and_ the video, giving the audience incentive to watch them! You're nowhere near Terrible Writing Advice's sponsorship sections, though.
@@Fluffydoom That's not the point. Income is a representation of cash FLOW. If you earn minimum wage, that hourly wage is approximately the same proportion of money per time worked as a yearly salary: i.e. $7.75 an hour is the same as $16,120 annual income, assuming you work 40 hours a week for all 52 weeks of the year. Net worth, which determines millionaire status, is a representation of wealth you're holding on to (both cash and assets like a house or retirement account). It is built up by income, and your expenses reduce it.
Amen to that. If the average household puts away $400-$500 a month and gets average returns, they'll be a millionare by retirement. Just a matter of saving.
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I'm not sure why, but when my favorite TH-cam creators do this cross over stuff, it makes me all kinds of happy.
I avoid all of this nonsense by giving my money directly to Nigerian princes.
To get to the Gilded Tier you need to have at least 50 Nigerian Princes on your downline.
Yeah! Skip the middleman
Only if they are specifically a ling lost uncle, otherwise swipe left man.
Wow I never thought of that, smart move!
you do know that is a scam right haha
Some of my Army friends tried to recruit me into an MLM that sells cell phone service. My response was "Last time I fell for a scam like that, I ended up in Iraq for a year."
They didn't like that.
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My dad would hate you... I love that
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This video is published and now there is a Tropical Storm called Karen. I think you manifested the collective rage of a million suburban moms.
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It's crazy to me that Tupperware is a MLM since they're basically the generic name that everyone calls plastic tubs.
Luckily they actually do sell their products.
I didn’t know they were a name brand at all. I’ve called any plastic tub that stores leftovers tupperware. We have a “tupperware” drawer in our house, mostly full of Costco tubs and empty sour cream containers.
@@alaska4939 Me neither. I'm not even American (I'm Portuguese, tadaaa), and even here we call plastic tubs of any shape "Tupperwares".
they were THE FIRST plastic tub sellers using this so called "Direct Sales" approac
@@GumSkyloard honestly that would sound so cute in Portuguese haha
How to get rich using mlm's
Step one: start one
Step 2: Spend millions lobbying Congress so that they prevent the FTC from investigating, regulating, or outlawing them, and hire outgoing senior FTC staff to get insider connections and information.
Bet!
@@krombopulos_michael damn. Thanks for the tip lol
Actually yeah if you do you're gonna be swimming in money, illegal money, yet it's still money
Or the quicker way is star up ur own independent local leg oh the company. Be the one giving the talks and motivating people selling them dream. It's they who are the ones making the money. And you don't see them going out recruiting anybody 💁🏾
Home Depot says that they run on an "Inverse pyramid" where the CEO and corporate is at the bottom, and the floor associates and customers are at the top, due to their low wages, a common joke among employees is saying "an inverse pyramid is just a funnel."
I'd love to see them explaining to the IRS that when they turn the chart upside down, it is no longer a pyramid.
Lol..that's so funny because some of the other "legitimate" companies I know basically thinks like this too aside from Home Depot. And I guess it makes sense why.
If anyone here is ever involved in management or some type of management training....you know that the people underneath you plays an important role in your success.
In a way, it is a inverse pyramid. If they don't do their job, that's basically like saying you're not doing your job effectively. Not that you are, but point is....if you're a leader or manager of some type, you're most likely to get the blame if something goes wrong.
Funny how you brought up the funnel. I never thought about it that way before.
If a business is a pyramid, bad.
If a business is a inverse pyramid, that's bad too.
If a crypto-currency is becoming too centralized, that's hitting a rough spot. If a crypto-currency is becoming too decentralized same thing.
When it comes to "systems"..
Centralized Systems vs Decentralized Systems
..it turns out, balance, matters most in any type of system or structure. Fairness matters most.
When the trustless becomes trustworthy....that says something.
When the so called "trustees" becomes trustless, that says somethings as well.
Their is no way to tell if a system or structure is actually trust worthy unless you're in the system yourself or their is enough evidence to back up "fairness".
@@HmongCrypto there*
Genius, no need to carry the money up the pyramid.
Walmart treats you better than Home Depot. Hd starts you with 20 hours a week, Walmart gives me 40 hours a week and I barely started. I would rather be exploited by Walmart.
The new term they’re using, now that “MLM” has been ruined for them, is “social retail”.
Honestly sounds worse. I hate retail. Bringing it into my social life sounds cancerous.
that is what my weed dealer calls it as well
@@shadegreen5351 "Nah occifer I was engaging in my personal social retail business! "
"Network Marketing"
God that is such typical corporate tomfuckery
“I read the Bible and they talk about oils all the time” is one of my new favorite sentences in the English language.
which is funny when you consider egypt’s fuel of choice for lighting a fire was olive oil
@@tacticallemon7518that was the fuel of choice for much of the region, basically every time they mention Oil in the bible, Torah, or Quran is taking about Olive oil.
I am an Orthodox Christian and I never got the whole thing with being fanatically obsessed with the bible, most of it is metaphorical, it's important of course, but prayer, the Divine Liturgy and various rites are significantly more important, it's not an instruction manual.
Granted it's mostly a protestant thing, so I wouldn't really know.
I almost got roped into working for Primerica last year. The red flags were kind of scary.
1. Almost nobody there was older than 25. The guy recruiting me was YOUNGER than me by 2 years.
2. The company's entire shtick is helping people balance their budgets. Something you can literally do yourself.
3. They ask you to sign up for an app that you pay $100 a month towards.
4. They played an orientation video entirely dedicated to pointing out how they're NOT a pyramid scheme or scam.
5. They asked me not to tell any of my family members about them, as family members get "overprotective."
By the time they gave me #5, I noped the hell out of it.
Dude the same thing happened to me. What's worse is they target military peeps, and try to cast doubt on your military life insurance to get you to buy theirs IN ADDITION to the insurance you already pay.
#5 is just plain creepy
Omg dude, one of friend at the college also got this 'community' which the goal is to make college students become financially independent. I got no problem of it's some entrepreneurial community but i dunno. They are very secretive about what they actually gives the members for them to be financially independent. For more information i have to direct contact their phone number. The moment I found a member on youtube talking about gaining more member each month and NOT EVEN saying any product is just no-no to me. This must be some ponzi scheme or something.
Hahaha it’s like when Walgreens or Amazon makes their employees watch a video on how it’s in employees’ best interest not to join unions, and that the fact that there aren’t unions yet is somehow proof of how awesome the jobs are. Money makes people basically insane.
Yeah they tried to get me in 2003. I walked out of their “conference” and said “nope” and they told me to pass their info on to “someone who actually wants to be successful”. Scary.
looks like i got in on the ground floor of the comments section
Same lol
Everybody's selling a line of BS
Same here, top of the pyramid.
Oh boy! A new episode of “Reasonable and Well-Informed Man gets Justifiably Disgruntled at Pseudoscience”!
Love this show
Lmao.
This is perfect! I used to get so pissed about the uninformed wonks in my social sphere but now I try to let some shit go unless it’s going to cause harm to someone. This channel lets me vicariously get some frustrations out haha.
Oh, I know essential oils are bullshit but in my teens (like 18 years ago, damn) I used tea tree oil for acne because it’s just a really strong astringent. I think it smells pleasant as well like a way stronger eucalyptus oil.
22:22 wasn't justifiably disgruntled though
@@SobrietyandSolace what, does it help a tiny bit with skin health, so he's not allowed to criticize the mlm for implying that you can replace healthcare with smelly lipids?
So, fun fact: that essential oil toothpaste can give you terrible canker sores! My mom is pretty big into Young Living. When I told my mom about the terrible sores I developed that lasted for two weeks, her solution was to PUT MORE ESSENTIAL OILS ON THE SORES. They didn't stop until I switched to normal people toothpaste.
You didn't use enough oil
@@bobhill9845 using too much of it can cause harm
He forgot the /s
@@sonodiventataunalbero5576 yes that's the joke
Christ my mother was the same way. Gave me tea tree oil when all those soaps and stuff caused problems. She insisted it was contamination from regular soaps from my school peers’ clothes… Mysteriously it all went away after I moved out and just use regular detergents 🤔
(No MLMs though, just bought that health marketing super hard. She regularly bought from them from others, but knew not to sign up.)
"It's a plastic container with a lid you'll probably lose" one of the most accurate things that's ever been said on this channel
Imagine the conversation with the sponsor trying to put in that line.
"Come on, it's relatable, it'll get you more sales!"
"Dude, you're literally dissing our brand during a paid advertisement."
"Uhh... so?"
"Okay dude, you're right. Fine, just do it."
We had and used them regularly for years and by and large we kept the lids. Unless I accidentally stuck them in the wrong place in the dishwasher and it was on high heat so they melted.
Imagine being the grandkids of lularoe and knowing an MLM is named after you
Dang
It’s like the kid that climbed into harambes enclosure
I'd own it
I doubt they’re gonna lose any sleep over it lol
Yes, but...they will have their eyes on the inheritance surprise...I’d be quite happy to lend my name to just about any product, if doing so would get me serious money.
>tfw when you're not part of an MLM because you have no friends
That’s what saved me too 😂
Look on the brightside, at least you will never in your whole life have to attend a tupperware party!
We are your friends and family now, just send me money.
Feels bad man
Better than having your friendship seen as a way to be exploited for money
i hate having to summon an ender dragon just to swim
Dude I've died laughing from this
I know right, so relatable.
If someone askes you to join a mlm, you're to late to make profit of it.
*too
Too*
*too*
Just not true.... but the vast majority of sign ups won't succeed but out of those 99 percent don't even try
@@TJCampbell78 it's definitely true lol. Money flows in and up in these systems, if you're not at the top (ie. One of the very first members) you're getting drained
Do they seriously put *thieves* on their products without even a hint of irony?
They have a whole story behind the name of that oil, I enjoyed the story and if it's true, I have absolutely no issue with it. However that blend has oils in it that are not safe for people with sensitive skin and even tho they tell you that, some people don't know they can't handle it until it's too late.
@@FreggFaerie It's more of a folk legend and there are a few theories as to its origins. So while the story is unlikely to be true, Young Living didn't make it up. They just took the herbs used in four thieves vinegar, made an essential oil version, and tacked on the old legend to help market the product.
Well we do named a innocent little seed.. a rapeseed, that grew into a rape flower ?
Someone brought some Theives cough drops into work, and one day, I decided to try one. I felt sick all afternoon.
Later, I learned from my wife that they are an essential oils product, and that Thieves oils are potentially harmful. Perhaps I felt sick for other reasons that afternoon, and I may be just curious enough to try them again someday to see what happens, but all in all, I'm just going to stick with generic cough drops from the supermarket if I have to instead.
I feel ripped off. My dishwasher didn't come with a ferret.
Complain to petstore ! If you scream enough They might give you nothing... But you tried !
It could be an add-on.
I WANTED TO SEE IT WALCC
Dion7 right!? I’m pissed
"Protecting against blue lights." The day stay-at-home Moms discover the blue light filter on phones, we'll all breathe a sigh of relief.
I physically can't use my phone without it on, and my brother often has a completely yellow screen
As a former employee for a nationally-known direct sales company, I can assure your viewers that everything you've just said is true. Well done!
I had no idea Tupperware was an MLM, I didn't even know it was a brand name, just thought it was a generic name for a food container.
Also my god that TH-cam and Patreon ad at the end was perfect.
Right? I thought it was the same thing like Kleenex and tissue
Tupperware was seen as the quality product for years, so it is almost a generic (like "Band-Aid", "Kool-Aid", "Crock-Pot", "Bubble Wrap", etc.).
I got in trouble for throwing away one of mom's Tupperware containers as a child, which was how I learned.
I guess in Western countries brand names overtake the names of actual type of product like that. That is interesting, but to outsiders, even sometimes from other Anglophone country, that may be confusing in comparison to, say, plastic food containers, adhesive bandages, flavoured drink mix, slow cookers, and I guess still bubble wrap? Foodstuffs expcially, since I still wonder what exactly Marmite is.
@@TenositSergeich yeah i think it comes from being constantly advertised to at very young ages it's strange because even if I buy a generic brand of flavored drink powder I still call it koolaid
@@TenositSergeich It's a natural result of language drift. Generally speaking, after a while people just don't realize the words they use are old brand names. It's not specific to any language or region of the world.
I'm so early I have not told my five friends yet.
You seem to be a social butterfly... Meanwhile my husband is my only friend
@@theamhway wow a friend I'm alone in this world
Don’t worry, I’ll tell MY 5 friends
same
Ohhh look who has a husband
It was so difficult, finishing watching this. I was raging internally. I've had people from 3 different MLMs try to recruit me. The first one, Reliv, waa before id ever heard the term "Multi Level Marketing scheme". I passed on that one because I was 300+lbs and they wanted me to sell a product based on its weight loss and health benefits. I told them I couldn't sell it to myself, let alone other people. I got wise when they said I didn't have to sell the product to make money, that I could just make money off recruiting. They wanted me to push this shit on everyone I knew which I found suspicious and annoying. I listened to one of their stupid conferences calls. They all sounded indoctrinated. It was weird. And this doctor that supposedly developed their product was conveniently in a different country so you couldn't talk to him. Their product was a supplement and so wasn't regulated by the FDA or anything. No one i spoke with could give me anything more than vague suggestions on what it might help with. No specific treatments for specific anything (seeing this video explained why). And they wanted a ton of money for one of these stupid starter kits and I wasnt willing to come off it.
A friend of mine got bilked by Herbalife. While he was selling it, he told me all about how it had helped him lose weight. Told me he'd replaced his daily Dr. Pepper intake with it. I was like "duh, sodas are super bad for you. Look at me." He was damn near fanatical about it. Next time I saw him, he'd gotten wise and stopped selling it. Thankfully they didn't get him for more than a few hundred bucks. I hate these MLMs. It's so predatory. Its upsetting how many people they trick per year.
So, you're telling me all I have to do is get five friends to watch this and then I can work from home, too? SIGN ME UP.
LOL, Mr Beat! 🤣
Lisa Bowers He created his channel before mrbeast but it’s still a funny coincidence
Eww dont let your ferrets play with those leggings. They're probably radioactive or something
Wait the ferrets or the leggings?
@@maxhydekyle2425 yes
@@maxhydekyle2425 Technically the ferrets, the leggings, and you are radioactive.
@@josephburchanowski4636 That's not true. Just because you emit a negligible amount of EM waves doesn't mean you're radioactive.
@@TheAlison1456 Typically we call things that emit ionizing radiation, to be radioactive. You are emitting ionizing radiation. You emit a bit of gamma radiation, as well as a tiny bit of beta radiation. Alpha radiation produced in you almost always gets re-absorbed by you, so almost no alpha radiation will be emitted by you.
The only way you wouldn't be emitting Ionizing radiation would be if you only have stable isotopes of atoms in you.
Almost everything you interact with, unless purified to only contained stable isotopes, is a tiny bit radioactive. Eating a banana will give you a radiation dose. In fact a funny unit used is the Banana Equivalence Dose (BED); which is about equal 0.1 µSv; or about 10^-7 Sv.
A chest X-ray is about 200 BED.
My basketball coach tried to cure my bone cancer with Young Living lmfao. I'm fine now, no thanks to the MANY pyramid scheming "boss babes" who tried to tell my mom that oils would fix me.
Oh you are dying? Join this pyramid scheme!
That's so fucked. Glad you're in recovery though!
Thank fuck she got you real treatment
"Now.. I use the whole packet"
Honestly i've never heard anything so empowering yet grounded in reality and at this point i dont know if I'm joking or not
It was sad to me…cause at the end of the day your still eating instant ramen
KnowingBetter in leggings was not what anyone wanted to see. This man commits. 👍
Well...
We didn't know we wanted to see it, you mean?
I've seen worse unfortunately 😥
scarred for life
Speak for yourself.
yeet
100% showing this to my mom and her "girlfriends". She used to sell doTerrā and Norwex.
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Yay 2nd top comment!! KB where's that super like at?
William Downing my aunt and her friend used to sell Avon together haha
My mom has gotten herself into the Terrā life style. The lavender that is constantly being vaporized burns my nose. And she is constantly ingesting and applying oregano to boost her immune system. I cannot be anywhere near her when she has that stuff on without risking suffocation.
@@BabbleCacophony Try showing her the video, it might open her up to a conversation about finance, but more importantly you could voice your unfortunate side-effects. 😁
I don't think they'll listen
Rip
Nah, mate, MLM stands for Moms Losing Money
This is where I would put "thanks for all these likes" If I were a normie
*Gameboy SP,*
Hey. Can you help me out, here? How do I get my Pokémon Crystal to work again?
Nice backlight mate. Looking fresh.
Morons Losing Money
It's okay its dad's money anyway
@@stephanwilliams4143 lmfao
I watched this video and then less than a month later I met with someone for a "job opportunity". They were explaining how it worked and when they drew a triangle while explaining how everything worked, along with being very hesitant to mention the name of the company, it was obvious what was happening. If I hadn't seen this vid, I probably wouldn't have been any wiser.
The intro would've been perfect if it had a "unskippable ad" mark
"MOMtrepreneur"
*vomits*
Erium 😭😭😭
Misogynist
Momits*
Money Laundering Moms?
Hahahaha
This almost makes selling drugs seem ethical 😂
Wait until the Controlled Substances Act gets repealed and someone makes an LSD Herbalife.
Selling drugs is about as ethical as letting your neighbor borrow your razor to cut their own wrists from time to time.
I’ve heard stories of people saying drugs saved their lives because it was a form of self harm instead of going whole hog and shooting themselves. They recovered from depression which helped them kick the drug habit too.
Grant Nitz God willing 🤞🏻.
Also,
Ethical or not,
“Fuck the nanny state but yeah the government *should* tell us which psychoactive substances are okay to put in our own consenting grown-ass bodies. Alcohol is fine, even though it causes most “murders of passion,” and a sizable chunk of suicides...and practically nothing else. Glue? I guess? If you pretend you give a shit about model airplanes.
Drugs will get you 3-5 in prison.
MLM will get you 3-5 in prison but possibility of parole.
The world is a terrible place.
Every ad that popped up during this video was about improving my marketing.
So true
It's all "passive income" now. NOTHING EVER CHANGES ↼‸↼
@@mookinbabysealfurmittens same
Also I love how you need like 10k to join them shits like that one company selling garbage leggins while you could just go to any used clothes shop and buy literally kilograms of Lularou or whatever its called for few dollars and resell it without joining shit, this way you can actually make a buck out of it (but keep in mind considering the absolute garbage quality of their products, selling each pair for like a dollar or two would probably be the only way to get rid of it).
Its that simple and yet people (well women mostly) eat that shit up and just spend thousands of dollars for a "licence" to sell terrible clothes that they have to pay retail price to even get... how moronic you have to be to not only miss that its a pyramid scheme but also not see that you could do the same thing on your own and literally make like 2000% more profit by just reselling used clothes...
@@aw2584 It's not just "women, mostly". But they (MLMs) prey upon the most assailable, like military wives, new Hispanic immigrants, etc. It's insidious and it's disgusting.
Um whatever you’re just a hater I asked brad if we’re a pyramid scheme when we met at Starbucks and he said if we were a pyramid scheme would he be driving a Camry, explain that buddy
kek
@@zuccx99 kkk
Not to mention those aluminium-looking hubcaps
yo! is brad still rocking that '09 Camry, toight. Just need to get 35 more people in my downline and I can get the Gold Emerald Elite level and get the opportunity to purchase the Diamond Captain package, after I sell that bad boy imma be rolling in a Camry of my own.
The only essential oil I need is WD-40
Wallet-B-Gone
Ballistol
Just don't try to lubricate anything with it, or mix it with actual lubricants.
It is very effective at grease and oil removal, which is also why it will happily thin out and evacuate the lubricant from any set of gears or chain you spray it on, a good way to destroy them.
That + duck tape= zombie apocalypse survival kit.
Matthew McKellar only things I would use WD for is 1) breaking something loose, 2) cleaning some gunked up stuff, and 3) protection on something like a folding knife, where wear isn’t a serious issue
There's a new Knowing Better video.
My depression is cured.
It has a Napoleon Dynamite reference.
MY depression is cured!
It’s like digital essential oils
*only for half an hour
For now.
Essentially
“MLM’s are capitalism on steroids”. So damn accurate
All of his MLM ads sounds like youtuber sponsorship
i had an instinctive urge to skip forward about a minute before i realized he was doing a bit, not a real ad read
they did. After I learned more about how they make money, I make sure to watch the add reads...even if they are boring and repetitive...like Raid...
Wanna know how rich I am?
I use the whole ramen flavor packet
What oils do you sell hun
Bitch I use 2 packets
How would using half a packet save anything? Every package of noodles has another. Not that it was intended to make sense. lol
OOH LOOK AT MISTER MONEYBAGS OVER HERE
You know how much richer I am? I dump all the half-empty packets down the drain!
I had no idea Tupperware was a pyramid scheme. the more you know
Jeff Everman Yeah, it definitely is but at the same time it’s actually good stuff.
It is, but my folks had a bunch of that stuff when I was a kid and it lasted more than 20 years.
So that's why my mom disavow me when I lost my lunchware
Very strange it's great stuff tho.
@@ridhosamudro2199 com'on now, you liar, your folks would have never been that extravagant as to give you Tupperware as lunch box
as a person who grew up in church and was homeschooled, I can attest to Essential Oils were VERY popular in the circles I existed in K-12
I'm just realizing my step mom used to be a part of an mlm years ago, explains why we could barely eat during those 2 years
Evan Roman-Hernandez which one do you think it was? And what caused her to stop?
Nominee to best mom of the year?
>Pitches me an MLM
>Shows a fork approaching an outlet
Beautiful.
Literally got an MLM ad midway through. Yes, I looked them up and they're on the list.
I became legitimately concerned when you tilted the tea tree oil towards your eye.
I know I was cringing the hole time saying "STOP!"
Yeah, I was waiting for the screams. I know he believes eos are fake, but I can assure you, one drop in his eye will let him know that its not just olive oil. lol
Right. The fact that they encourage you to live "lavishly" and flaunt it goes against simple Christian values...so right there should throw up RED FLAGS
My favorite part about "legal" pyramid schemes is that they are called "schemes".🤣
Scheme is a natural word. Well was, like propaganda use to be a natural word.
Neutral! Lol
@@rburk121 True, but that train has long since sailed. "Would you care to peruse some propaganda about this scheme, it's totally not illegal!" just doesn't have a good ring to it.
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There's a reason why pensions, benefit plans, etc. are also often classified as schemes.
But for real why isn't there a size 11?
I didn't even know there wasn't a size 11 until this video
Women's sizes are even numbers. Odd numbers are "junior" or teen sizes. It's basically the clothing equivalent of YA books, it's just style/audience distinction.
no, seriously dude, why is there no size 11?
@@erraticonteuse Then why are sizes 5, 7, 9, 13, and 15 included? I feel like I'm asking a dumb question but I'm really clueless about women's clothes.
@@abdisaniini They're not. "Sizes 2-10" means 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10.
As someone who grew up with parents in these MLM companies, specifically Amway, it's literally suffocating living in the same house because you know what they're doing is _wrong_ but they're so deeply in the hole is there really any safe way to take them out without making them realize they spent 20 years in a scam and ruining any sort of self confidence they might've built during this time? How do you even recover from something like that??
Are they still involved in these, or have they left them since then? ;;
Phenomenal video! Thanks for mentioning the cult of Young Living!
Didn’t expect to find you here. Glad to see you appreciate this excellent content as well
Genetically Modified Skeptic love your work 👌
Holy shit you are my crush lol
I'm an A/V engineer with 40 years of experience. If I had a dime for every time I've sat at the back of a dimly lit ballroom and listened to Amway and/or other con men selling some variation of a Ponzi scheme at a low rent Holiday Inn on a beautiful Saturday, I'd own our galaxy. I finally came to a conclusion about the folks doing the shill. They would stand up there and show slides of their perfect family, mansion, Mercedes, island, space program, or whatever in that low rent Holiday Inn on a Saturday, and I finally asked myself why they were doing that, and not back at the mansion water skiing on dolphins with their blonde trophy wife and 2.5 kids? It seems like they already have enough to get through their twilight years, and they didn't seem overly greedy. In fact, most didn't do a complete hard sell, but rather played them like a Southern Baptist tent revival evangelist, alternating between praising them for their obvious smarts and financial savvy for merely wandering into the room, showing them the "hard numbers"(possibly the most common and repeated phrase across all meetings over the years) in a soft way, then revving them up to an emotional feel-good peak, the highest of which signaled the end of my ennui and got me ready to bug out. My conclusion was that they were there because it was who they were on a basic level, people with a deep need to convince other people of the righteousness of their crusade buy informing the American public that they are millionaires in waiting, and that it takes hard work plus believing in yourself to get there. The hard sell was that if you weren't successful the only reason was you weren't trying or believing hard enough. The religious overtones were heavy, as the overwhelming majority were righteous and upstanding in the eyes of The Lord, many born again Christians. Damn. If I had all that time back it would add up to 10 years.
Fun fact: Reaganomics was the largest Ponzi scheme in human history, transferring all the money from the middle class at the base up to the 1% from 1980 until the money ran out in 2008, nearly destroying our country, much less the economy.
I actually worked in a Young Living Warehouse as a temp (without realizing what it was) and after a few months I realized it was total BS. You could definitely describe it as a cult.
I was talked into going to an MLM meeting to show me the buisniess idea. And i thought it looked shady as hell.
It felt like a cult.
They’re essentially the same thing. One is selling a product, the other is selling God
Essential oils really work! I use 'em whenever I'm out of WD-14. My chair hasn't squeaked in months! Though, I think it might have cancer.
Gerald O'Steen Hope it recovers soon #ThoughtsandPrayers
LOL
ROFLMAO!
Don't worry I'm selling a treatment called fix my chair pills! You can be a member too! If you want to know more all you gotta do is ask :)
😿 That’s really unfortunate to hear, chair cancer really sucks and I hope it will recover soon. Sending thought and prayers your way and may Jesus bless you with a long prosperous life 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🧖🏿♂️🕺
I legitimately yelled at my screen when I saw you pretend to put essential oil into your eyes.
I’ll never forget being in the green room for a Christmas service and barely being able to breathe.
I have asthma and sensitive lungs, so I asked them to turn off the diffuser.
“BuT yOuR cAnT bE aLlErGiC tO eSsEnTiAl OiLs.”
-says an idiot to someone literally gasping for breath.
god its awful... every skincare line designed for sensitive skin or targetted towards sustainability uses them too.. and im topically allergic to most of them lmao.. as someone studying to work in skincare it drives me insane becuase theyre SO commonly irritating to skin and cause issues for people with allergies or respratory issues..
As a fellow asthma sufferer I'm LIVID. you could have legit died!
Well, this is secondary but it's not even like allergies are the only reason people might suffer respiratory problems. -.-
Justin Helms right i’m allergic to lavender
NYCest2010 me too!
Best part about the recruiting nonsense? I once got called by a recruiter who said they got my information from my old school. I had just finished university and had no idea why they would give my contacts. In another situation, they said it was via a mutual friend who said I was looking for a new job. I hadn't seen or spoken to that friend in over a year. So yeah, the first thing they did was lie.
As I watch this I'm wearing a lularoe shirt and I had no idea what the brand was. Found it at a thrift store.
Still paid too much.
I like the ending of the video where you call out youtube for becoming a sort of MLM
Yeah, that was the best part.
god this is depressing
especially young living
The thing I love about this channel is that it is reality based and informative, not ideological. I'm impressed with the knowledge you have about such a wide range of subjects. And I love that everything is straightforward and no-nonsense. So when you lumped tea tree oil's uses together with strange claims about blue light, I glitched a little, because I thought those were true ( the tea tree, not the blue light!)
I googled and apparently Wedmd and the Mayo clinic confirm that there seems to be evidence for its anti-fungal uses. My own personal experience is that for insects, it is the next best thing to 100% deet, which you can't get anymore. And I care deeply about the effectiveness of my insect repellent!
Sooo, just because someone unreliable says it, doesn't mean it is false.
You wanna know what I've found to have strange anti-fungal properties? Dog saliva. Had bad athlete's foot when I played baseball as a teen. Came home one day and took off my socks and shoes and just sat for a minute. My feet were on fire. My dog that I'd had since early childhood and had gotten for free from a shelter just walked up and sniffed my feet before she started licking them. I was too tired to be very forceful in telling her no and by the time I worked up the energy to do so I noticed the part of my foot she was licking didn't burn at all. It made me curious so I let her keep going. She sniffed out all the fungus and I guess she kinda ate it all right off my feet. She knew exactly where it was and didn't lick above the ankle, either she knew it was bothering me or she found it delicious, I still don't know.
When she was done she just walked off and my feet felt normal. I'd never been more surprised by anything. I'd never even heard rumors that dog saliva could do anything for anyone.
After that any time I had a flare up I'd do the same thing before I showered and combined with putting my cleats and shoes in plastic bags and leaving them in the freezer overnight I stopped having athlete's foot for long periods of time. Wasn't permanent and I still had to freeze the shoes or wash them, but yeah it was surprisingly effective. And as far as immediate relief goes I've yet to find an athlete's foot spray or powder that does a better job than a dog's tongue.
It's probably got something to do with how strong the bacteria in a dog's mouth is so it's not without risk if you have an open blister on your foot or something but it can help.
So don't pay for fungus relief, get a free dog and just be weird.
Having joined Amway about 10 years ago, it took about a year to really figure out what the tree of "downline" would look like for a certain level, and what would be going on for those people. That's when it really became clear how exponential the recruiting needs to be.
On the plus side, even then there was an official (little bit air quotes) policy of really selling a certain amount of product monthly - but a lot more of the self-use built in.
The real value in the end, from all the materials aimed at teaching you how to sell / overcome objections/ etc was that I got an insight I'd never had before into the techniques sales people use *against* you, that I'd never been good at dealing with before. That became quite useful defensive information in my life.
I'm glad you were able to learn something useful from your membership. I know quite a few people who weren't as lucky.
Several times in this vid i was like "Okay here comes the lame add for the sponsor..." only to be reminded that its part of the story :D your fake pitches are good, maaaan
😈😈😈😈😈😈 key to great content
Gotta admit it's clever
For a moment, I actually thought he was going to do a livestream for the leggings. I almost threw up in my mouth, and sought therapy. Glad I waited. Brilliant stuff.
@@robsimmons10 😂😂 same
i instinctively began fastforwarding through the "sponsored segment" and then realized my mistake lol
in 2009, after losing my job during the financial crisis, I was applying for jobs. So when I got a call back for an interview, I was stoked. Then confused when I saw the address was on a residential street three blocks from my house. I showed up anyway because, well, financial crisis, and it was a pitch for an MLM and me and the other four people there all thought we were there for a job interview and we realized we'd all applied for a tech company.
Wow. 🤦🏼♂️😡
I'm pretty sure that's grounds for an ass-whuppin'.
OMFG! I JUST saw an actual better-life store front (the place that makes smoothies) set up in my home town with signs and labels consistent with what Knowing Better said they’d look like. It’s so awesome how right you are about all this better-life bullshit
Is it still there lmao
The video hasn’t been out long enough to watch the video and there’s already dislikes: I wonder what pyramid scheme the haters work for.
It's not a pyramid scheme pfft, is a Pyramid of Success. Buy my beetroot powder to grow 4 inches anywhere you want.
D Gray “anywhere”? 😏
Vimeo.
Michael Crossley
Bots travel through every video and dislike them. There isn’t a single video without at least 1 dislike.
*let's outflank them*
I typically liberally apply *TEA TREE OIL* to any MLM I see, seems to be the only realistic use. Repellent.
Honestly essential oils aren't that bad per se. They do have a use to give something a nice smell and they're used in industry for for example perfume. However they obviously don't have any medical properties beyond placebo and if you want to buy them MLMs are the worst place to do so as they're incredibly overpriced.
The frequency at which I remember your "And dis is two ferrets" joke and laugh is higher than it should be. I love your ferrets.
Seeing you in leggings isn't something we asked for, but it's something we needed
A friend of mine is in one of these, and his relentless positivity is how I know it is a MLM... A short personal story: when I was an Airman, one my Sergeants had me meet this guy in a hotel bar. This guy was dressed up in a suit, and he had great hair, talked fast. He gave me his sales pitch, and by the end, I figured out it was Amway. I didn't get near it (I did, however, get near no-load mutual funds...) I'm very thankful that young Airman made the right decision all those years ago, I don't know why, I just got lucky I guess. Now, an Amway Heiress is a Cabinet Secretary... Go figure.
Betsy DeVos was the Education Secretary, ffs. God knows how much damage she’s done to future generations.
When I reached the end and realised that I'd attentively watched a thirty minute exposé of pyramid marketing schemes, I knew I must subscribe.
Knowing Better, are you secretly a stay at home mom?
it's tough to raise two ferrets, boi!
Secretly?
@@ffejpsycho lol
Yeah, the ferrets are his children.
I have a militia of frogs for children. Dont judge
I wish I knew what an MLM was before one sucked me up. I hadn’t even heard of pyramid schemes.
Luckily, I refused to sell to people who actually mattered to me because I knew I didn’t want money to enter those relationships, so I didn’t lose friends over it. I also didn’t lose “too much” money ($650 really was too much for me back then though. I was making $16k a year and very desperate for money) so I was eventually able to claw my way out of that mess.
Moms, militaries, minorities, and Mormons...
Great
Or as I call it: 4M’s for MLM’s.
MMMM MLM
College students were the only non-M!
@@manictiger thats the sound a pug makes
So if I join skillshare and then recruit others to join skillshare through my promo link, i too, can own two whole ikeas?
Maybe an IKEA desk
That last part about anyone who doesn’t agree being a “hater” made me lol
My roommate is real deep into the arbonne cult mentality, and lashed out at me for not supporting women and her ~~industry
-because I tweeted about someone at a doterra conference who was spamming her Instagram about it.
Anywho, we were moving in a month anyways, and my roommate told me not to ever talk to her again haha #byehun
May her genes of stupidity never find any offspring.
shell be broke friendless and familyless in a year or two dont worry
Yeah, you definitely won out on that exchange.
Like any cult or addiction, it gets worse before it gets better.
A friend of mine was talking to me about a former highschool classmate that became a door to door tupperware salesman.
He started explaining how said former classmate made money, such as recruitment, and when I tried explaining that what he is describing sounds like an MLM scheme and he went into a state of cognitive dissonance and completely denied entertaining the idea. It was good that he was just leaving because things immediately became awkward.
It's pretty shocking that, despite how well known they are, so many people really don't know what an MLM is.
I deadass though essential oils were just used to make soap. That's what my family always used them for. Who the hell thinks that what breaks down to nice smelling water is gonna cure then of cancer. Like yeah, God gave us plants and oils and shit, but he also gave us doctors.
Also as someone who's gotten essential oils in their eye before, watching you pretend to drop the oil in your eye gave me anxiety
It's an inverted funnel, dammit!
Turn it upside down.
I thought it was a triangle
It's a vacuum hose.
*Dimaryp
Where did you meet Derek?
That feel when a schoolmate or ex-colleague from 20 years ago suddenly calls you.
I had one hit me up, and tried to recruit me but since I work in construction I told him I don't have anytime for that, fast forward a couple years he hit me up again looking for work haha, he really needed that money because he was the best apprentice I had 😂
Hey girly girl!!
I do that from time to time to freak them out. Many say at the end of the phone call that they were expecting me to sell them something.
I love that their most popular blend is Thieves. They are just announcing what they are.
Man makes TH-cam video with ONE SIMPLE TRICK! Doctors HATE him!
I use the whole flavor packet is the funniest thing I've heard in a while.
Gunner Gunter you should get out more
It took me three mounts to realize the fake brands were a play on his name, Knowing Better.
Damn... I feel dumb now lol
I saw this literally the night of the day I watched Daredevil season 3 with my mom and only today realized that the end of the theme song was supposed to be a heartbeat.
I legit got a Herbalife ad while you did your Herbalife skit.
"Boil some eyes of newt and summon the Ender Dragon". You forgot the part where they read out the names of IKEA furniture at three AM.
I laughed SO hard at this! Thank you!😂😂😂🤣🤣
I know he already did the math, but I thought it would do people good if someone showed the math... to give them a chance to read it and really let it sink in (you know... in case anyone is ever considering joining up to one of these things). So... *doing the Quick math on LuLaRoe...* each piece costs you about $18 (based on the statement of having to buy 175 pieces per month, which costs $3,150). So at the Trainer Level, you earn $52,353.30... but you have to buy 250 pieces per month, which costs you $4,500... which means you have to buy $54,000. So, in reality... *even after all your hard work devoted to selling these items FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR... YOU ENDED UP STILL OWING LuLaRoe $1,646.70*
They sucker these people into buying brochures, websites, signage, attending shows, attending conventions. So the hit is much larger and what if they fall under that level since recruits drop like flies? The distributor = buyer = mark. Caveat emptor!
Essential oils cured my cancer, i snorted them and i died :)
A lot of my family fell in with 4Life. They basically came out as hunbots. One uncle went back to working as an electrician (and insisted MLMs were great). The other is pushing 60 and our grandma still cleans his house.
Mobil 1 5W-30 is an essensal oil for my car.
10W-30 All the Way baby! #96jeep
Ah, back when I JUST got out of high school I remember when someone tried to pull me into an mlm. Good thing I was too skeptical. Kids these days have it good with all this information.
You’re doing good work 👍
I hope this decade we see the death of mlm’s. I feel bad for the gullible/desperate people who get twisted into it.
"It sounds like an vital nutrient or mineral that your body needs to survive."
No, it sounds like an element a necromancer would need to reanimate a corps.
when?
"I say to you again - do not oil up any that you cannot oil back down!"
That faint whirr you hear is Lovecraft spinning in his grave...
A whole corps? All 30,000?
@@ThePhantomSafetyPin
I feel like there's a double entendre in there somewhere for someone far more clever than me to exploit
Not the rest of the apple, then?
I appreciate how he tries to look at the business schemes rather than trying to explain the problem causing products.
MLM Sales meeting motivational plan: "We're going to have a Sales contest this Month. The winners get to enter next Months contest!
shotelco genius!
Effing hilarious
Ohhh fuck, that's basically the whole deal with a Private Insurance Company i've used to work under a year ago.... Only now just realized it
I don't know whether Skillshare will appreciate your pitch this time...
I have to clear it by them ahead of time - they've always been cool with me joking with my audience.
@@KnowingBetter All I can say is WOW! How did you get that past them. It appears that you've just body slammed both skill share and youtube. You're a brave man. I'm a fan. Looking forward to the next video.
@@KnowingBetter It's almost as if they realize sponsorship pitches work better when they're tailored to the creator _and_ the video, giving the audience incentive to watch them!
You're nowhere near Terrible Writing Advice's sponsorship sections, though.
But...Skillshare Knows Better!
“Millionaire” isn’t an income level, it’s a net worth minimum
Lewis Johnson :0
Minimum wage is an hourly wage not a yearly incom
@@Fluffydoom That's not the point. Income is a representation of cash FLOW. If you earn minimum wage, that hourly wage is approximately the same proportion of money per time worked as a yearly salary: i.e. $7.75 an hour is the same as $16,120 annual income, assuming you work 40 hours a week for all 52 weeks of the year.
Net worth, which determines millionaire status, is a representation of wealth you're holding on to (both cash and assets like a house or retirement account). It is built up by income, and your expenses reduce it.
Amen to that. If the average household puts away $400-$500 a month and gets average returns, they'll be a millionare by retirement. Just a matter of saving.
a million dollar in debt is more common net worth minimum
I just want to point out just how much it baffles me the way facebook selling works, when something like eBay and Amazon exist.