It's getting very sad, as someone mentioned upthread.
These people we are friends with/related to, and generally speaking rate as clever, fun and nice to be around, are being brainwashed to a level where you simply cannot stop them from being sucked in. I know my bot will not be able to sack the boss thanks to FL. Nothing to do with her drive and want for a better life, because she has that. Thing is, she (and wither many others) has been brainwashed in to signing up to a scheme doomed to fail.
It makes me want to punch the top of the pyramid. Because knocking sense in to those people is not working. So brainwashed.
We're getting to a point where TV is still satire, but with an increasingly serious undertone.
And because these MLMs basically make you believe it's your fault for failing, ex-Bots are likely to have their confidence knocked.
Writing this is making me angry. I would actually relate it to extremists, who are brainwashed in to believing that they need to go out and kill 'non-believers'. They are brainwashed to a level where they'll quite literally do anything to get the virgins promised to them by some arsehole with a superiority complex.
Of course this is an extreme comparison, but the sad thing is that both concepts really do compare on certain levels.