On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 15:19:58 -0600, "Andrew Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry to top-post but it doesn't make sense for me to in-line my > response in this case: > > Others here know exactly what I meant, but this is a religious issue > and as such you won't be convinced by what I have to say. MLMs are > deceptive and prey on people's ignorance or inability to think for > themselves. >
So, I've not chimed in on this thread yet at all for 2 reasons: I don't use VOIP, and I don't like MLM's, however, I though I would share my crazy jaded view of MLMs and why they don't work over the long term. See, when I was a kid, I used to ride my bike all over the place. One day I discovered that I could by a generator that attached to the back wheel of the bike and would power a set of lights to make my bike more visible at night, and allow me to have a small headlight to light my way. Right after thinking "Cool!, no batteries!" the next thing I thought was "Why can't I hook up a generator to a motor that makes my bike self-powered?! I'll just get it rolling by pedaling a little to get the generator going, then the motor can take over." So, being like 7, I asked my dad, the guy with the PhD in Chemical Engineering and a career in Thermal Heat Fluid Transfer Dynamics where I could get a small motor to fit the bill. Thus, I learned the laws of thermodynamics, and why such big words as entropy, enthalpy, and physics in general were going to conspire to foil my plan. Back to MLM's - They are (in my opinion) like my idea to hook a generator off the wheel of a bike to a motor to drive the bike. Without a constant influx of extra energy / resources from constant customer growth, the whole organization topples. In this regard, I feel that the MLM business model is fundamentally flawed - the laws of the universe are conspiring against the organization and they rarely last long. (where long is defined as > 25 years of business w/out huge paradigm shifts in what they sell, how they sell it, or how compensation is structured to their staff). Just my $0.02. Now, back to your regularly scheduled programming... -- Kimball /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
