@9dartfinish2nd totally agree. Take Uber, recently showcasing one of her downlines to sell The FLP Dream when she knows full well the woman’s a bankrupt, the downline knows she’s been bankrupted by her FLP involvement too, as do a number of the contributors commenting on the Live. Who are the victims in this scenario? Surely not those who have seen what it does to others (and to themselves) but choose to continue? Or Homeschool? Yawn? Salon? Sleaze? Or indeed Sacked? Or how about Bloodsucker?
I think Ms Sponlie is absolutely right to think of most as victims as a start point and there are definitely people she has been a great deal of help to by taking that position but there are others who shouldn’t be let off the hook.
I think one of the problems is that relatively new anti MLMers haven’t always seen the behaviour over time so they don’t realise how many years these people have been knowingly selling others down the river for their own gain and blatantly lying to people for years. Sometimes those bots are exploiting people without really understanding what they’re involved with but most of the people discussed on these threads know full well what they’re doing.
It’s always been the problem with MLM hasn’t it: the line between perpetrator and victim is drawn in different places by different people and while we are all disagreeing about where that line is MLM continues to ruin lives 🙁