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Stop your protesting! Stop your organizing! The only thing we need is 🤑 MANIFESTATION 💸

It's time to talk about the Pyramidschemification of America. This episode has so many fun characters: 17th century Puritans, Tammy Faye Baker, Amanda Frances, an MLM hun on a regional jet somewhere over Sandusky, Ohio, and Elizabeth Holmes???

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Timestamps:

10:30 - The Puritanical roots of Mulitilevel Marking

21:00 - Stop organizing! Start manifesting!

30:00 - Turns out, Regan pyramidschemified America

35:00 - Betsy Devos putting in 40 hours at the Stupid Idea Factory

Links:

Little Bosses Everywhere

2023 FTC report on MLMs

The Unkillable Appeal of Multilevel Marketing

They Spent Their Life Savings on Life Coaching

The 'Exciting Business Opportunity' That Ruined Our Lives

The Miseducation of Betsy DeVos

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

DeVos held in contempt for violating judge's order on student loans

DeVos-Linked Adoption Agency Exposed Highly Sensitive Children's Medical Data

Blackwater Guards Found Guilty in 2007 Iraq Killings

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