@Lostmyway86 you're right that women make up the majority of MLM victims, I think it’s north of 75%. But it’s almost entirely men pulling the strings - female empowerment it ain’t.
The Mormons are the architects of this “entrepreneurship for women” which was designed to given women a pin money earning opportunity without any real power or autonomy and to keep them in their role as the stay-at-home parent. As luck would have it there was and is pretty much zero regulation in Utah as well. The products were created to appeal to those women; home products, cosmetics etc. It was always about the containment of women, and it remains so today.
Women have got two very attractive “weaknesses” as far as MLM is concerned. 1)we are likely to have the primary responsibility for childcare and therefore are the ones most likely to be grappling with childcare and inflexible jobs. If we are also grappling with low pay and inflexibility then that makes MLM look very attractive. We are also the ones who may have a break or pause in our working lives; an MLM loves a new parent. 2) the way women (generally) communicate and the social networks we have is like gold to MLM. They want to monitise our social circles.
Men are pulled in to it too but generally the products aren’t pitched at them, but when they are pitched at men and they are vulnerable in some way then they fall for it just the same - crypto Ponzi schemes, Utility Warehouse and ACN have lots of male victims.
Ultimately any vulnerability will do male or female; social isolation, debt, bereavement, job loss, poor mental health, financial illiteracy, disability, caring responsibilities, there isn’t anyone or any circumstance that won’t be exploited by MLM and their representatives who know that they must continually recruit anyone at any cost to that person. People enter MLM thinking they have to sell products to succeed and when this can’t be done they fall away having lost money or hop from MLM to MLM thinking it’s them, or realising it isn’t working they shift sideways to coaching people who are looking for answers about how to make the unworkable work. Then there are those who realise that it’s not a product selling business, it’s a system of continuous recruitment and internal sales as a way of passing money up the pyramid. Those people see an opportunity to line their pockets and are happy to lie and manipulate people to strip them of their cash and a lot more besides. Those are the ones discussed here mainly.
The ruthless are the only ones who can potentially make money and some do, yet strangely even those “successes” are not able to sustain good earnings and must create an illusion of success to sell the “opportunity”. Those “successes” are just as vulnerable (perhaps more vulnerable than those at the bottom) to the MLM deciding to pull the plug because they are not in control of their “entrepreneurship” in a faltering and shrinking “industry”. It’s the Yawns of this world that really disgust me. They KNOW what they’re doing and they don’t give a shit ☹️