Amway and other multi-level marketing cults

someone on my FB feed asking 'all (his) friends who sell juiceplus / herbalife' how many people they were expected to recruit in order to set themselves up as distributors. I said it was a pyramid scheme but no one really took notice. Never mind.

This American Life segment on the Wake Up Now cult
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/543/wake-up-now?act=1

man, reading about that smallville sex cult this morning...so crazy.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/smallville-actress-allison-mack-arrested-for-alleged-role-in-sex-slave-cult-nxivm-2018-04-20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsxHKDgvhYY

this is the inspirational pyramid sex cult leader's FIRST pyramid scheme. an infomercial featuring Eddie Albert! say it ain't so, Eddie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7kZBQCIrQM&t=469s

http://static-30.sinclairstoryline.com/resources/media/935d7d6a-049a-49fb-a836-920f61f2f5c3-large16x9_AllisonMack3CreditJaneRosenberg.jpg?1524277151918

the perp's face in that sketch deserves a spot in santorum.jpg

so my sister is deep into ItWorks, which is some pure bullshit, keto coffee and body wraps and the like. I can't imagine she's making any money off it; my sister is morbidly obese and the #bossbabe pictures she posts of herself are heavily filtered. She seems to have no innate conception of how to sell this shit either; for instance, she posted a picture of overdue bills with a long note about how she's so glad she has her #supplementalincome to help with that. Yeah, if it was doing so well for you why do you have collections notices at all? I've not broached the subject of any of this with her because we're honestly not that close, and she only tried to add one friend of mine on FB and rope them into it (she was ignored), but the whole thing is a bit depressing.