Video and Transcript for Amway, Mary Kay, Herbalife and the Get Rich Quick Business
Below you can find a YouTube posting(s) of the recording for Episode #40, Amway, Mary Kay, Herbalife and the Get Rich Quick Business.
Our guest this week, journalist and author Bridget Read, gives us the rundown on Multi Level Marketing and its influence on the history of modern commerce in America. Throw in some political influence and stir. This fascinating and wide ranging discussion was so chock full, we had to cut it into two parts.
This very lightly edited original interview contains nearly 50% more content, and when watched after listening to yesterday’s podcast, a primer on how excellent podcasts are produced.
We also have a rough transcript for you.
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I just want to say what a GREAT book she wrote; I lived with someone for a while who fell into the Amway cult and it was positively spooky how effective the brainwashing was, and she described that, forty some years later, to a T. I put “Little Bosses Everywhere” up with Kurt Andersen’s “Fantasyland” and “Evil Geniuses” (and Stoller’s book) as essential to understanding where we are in America today. Can’t praise it enough.
If only I could find a writer who could weave antitrust with politics without the partisan slant. As far as I can tell BIG is a monopoly on antitrust writing. So sad.