at Trump University.

I think he once said.

to deceive, and for few to make money

My state allows something like $500 to be an entry fee for MLM, and many
states have similar laws. Long distance and calling cards were sold like
that when Worldcom was wholesaling to MLM companies.

High entry fees and high cost of products are often a feature of MLM

Yet some have been around for many many decades. I think Watkins
started in the mid 1800s. Some companies sold shoes direct.

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whose founder committed suicide?


rocktivity

The others wore pins saying "lose weight now, ask me how". I knew it was bullshit, but I was there. Wasn't this one of the companies which used ephedrine as its weight losing formula...you see back then, you could get it over the counter, because it treated hay fever.

Regardless the FDA had no control over that industry, which chose names like herb + life = Herbalife to make it sound healthy. The junk used to be called patent medicine...see H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay.

These companies should never have been allowed to exist and should be put under the FDA so they require clinical studies to prove their claims. In my mind they are criminals doing anything to make a dollar at the expense of public health at their worst, to duping people into believing unproven, and obviously false claims at their best.

I'm glad the suit turned out the way it did...all about the pyramid scheme, but it's ironic that the greedy people who set up the other greedy people, sent out to sell shit and fool people, and the latter won...while nothing is done to protect public safety, is ironic, very much so.

None of their IBO's make any money either but the idiots go to these religious like events and believe all the lies they feed them. I hope the FTC goes there next.