Have a look around you, on your Facebook walls, on other social networking sites, and have a think about all the bots you have ever come across.
How many of them are men?
I will bet that most of your bots are women – accurate statistics are hard to find in the shady dodgy secretive world of MLM, but our research conservatively estimates that somewhere between 75 and 85% of bots are women.
And that isn’t surprising. As we previously covered in this post the easiest targets for bots when they are looking to recruit, are women who are stay at home mums wanting to make some extra cash, or women who have recently had a child and would like to replace her paid employment with another source of income.
Bots are instructed to prey on these women in particular, pressing emotional buttons to make them feel bad about going back to work. Read this, this,
They use false statistics, such as 80, or sometimes 90% (depending on the “inspirational” meme du jour) of women earning 6 figures are doing so via network marketing. Hmm. We can take that one with a giant pinch of salt, and despite querying it again and again no-one has ever been able to back this up for us, other than by referring to a book in which it was written. (Because we should always believe everything written in books, right?)
They are telling women that they can easily make extra money (they start by saying a couple of hundred a month but soon ramp up the sales pitch) for just a few hours of work and spend the rest of that time with their precious children. And we know that is a lie. Read this.
WIMMEN! KNOW YOUR PLACE!
You shouldn’t be aspiring to full time or part time hours with a set salary, workplace benefits, a pension, a promotion ladder that actually doesn’t involve desperately spamming your friends and family.
You should become a #bossbabe, selling overpriced junk to other women and honing in on insecure women to recruit to your cause, with none of the advantages of being employed (guaranteed income, a certain amount of security, workers’ right etc) and all of the disadvantages – limited freedom, stress being piled on you by your boss, sorry, upline, and a good dose of bullying.
^^You get we are joking right?
We believe pyramid schemes, because we all know this is, in essence, what these organisations are designed to keep an awful lot of people right at the very bottom.
Watch this:
or this
The top feeds from the levels below, every level feeds from the levels below. And who is at the bottom of these schemes?
Predominantly women.
And who is at the top?
We haven’t been able to check every single MLM (seriously, have you seen how many of them there are now?) but other than Stella & Dot and Rodan & Fields we’re having trouble finding women at the top.
YES, some women have been successful in these schemes, and are held up as examples of successful women, women to aspire to.
But you have more chance of making similar money if you get qualified, get a job, get promoted or even draw up a business plan and start your own business. You can do all that. There is nothing wrong with being in paid employment. Nothing wrong with having a career and a family.
And ask yourself this: would anyone expect a man to pin his hopes on a multi-level marketing scheme?
The answer is no.
The MLM industry targets and exploits women. Almost every email we have received since we started Timeless Vie have been from women desperate to share their story with us. Very similar stories of having been sold a lie about a life of wealth and abundance, having been bullied, having lost friends and family, having gone into debt in certain cases, being encouraged to spend time AWAY from their children (they don’t tell you that when they recruit you). MLMs keep the vast majority of the women in their schemes unsuccessful, and actually limit their choices.
This is why MLM is a feminist issue.
Cross-posted with permission from Timeless Vie
We like to keep track of what MLMs are up to and take the piss…just a little bit. Hence we made up our own MLM, Timeless Vie – with a ginormous product line of things made from parsley. You’ll love it!!!! #mlm
We also want to provide a safe, anonymous space for people to talk about the MLM-bots in their lives – friends, family members, and coworkers who used to be normal but now leave product samples everywhere they go, try and get you to join their ‘team’, etc.
We need help keeping tracking of all the hilarious and outrageous bullshit MLM bots say on social media, so if you can, feel free to send us anything you find. You can contact us via email at: [email protected], Facebook or Twitter , or comment on this website.
You take the screenshot, we promise to remove any identifying features (unless you’re okay with that).
Part of an MLM and want to escape? We are here to support you without judgement. Don’t feel ashamed, you are a victim too. Feel free to DM us on FB or Twitter if you’re not ready to go public.
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