hey Dan here and I'm responding to a question from Mike from my home country
Canada about one of my videos on multi-level marketing and I'll give you
a bit Mike wrote quite a long email so just share a little bit of it here hey
Dan I watched a couple quick videos with you I like how you promote yourself as a
coach and entrepreneur your attitude is perfect your language is great your
focus on young people who also have a good mindset but are still looking is
good what I do dislike is that you put others down it is not a good way to
promote yourself for example you hate and make others hate network marketing
system what I don't understand how is it possible to hate a system you can hate
some particular company some particular products but how is it possible to hate
a particular marketing model as a lot of you know I have a particular dislike for
network marketing multi-level marketing or good old pyramid schemes whatever we
want to call them and I am well aware that this is not always a popular
opinion in fact my videos on multi-level marketing are the only videos on my
channel that have about a 50/50 like to dislike ratio and get all sorts of hate
comments about my stupid face and how dumb I am and bla bla bla so here's the
thing and here's why I don't walk a line in those videos and say well some
companies could be good and some companies could be bad
I don't think all arguments should be given equal weight on things it's like
when you have these new shows where they're talked about climate change and
they put on one climate expert who says there is climate change and then one
says there isn't probably a merchant of doubt working for
some kind of energy companies and you have these people debating and it
presents an image like both sides are equally right and I don't really think
that's the right move because perception is very easy to manipulate intentionally
or not I was in Belgrade a few months back and this woman came up to me in a
park and she had some really crazy eyes like you know I carry from homeland
times 30 and she asked me if I was aware of alternative cosmology and right away
I said this is going to be the best conversation I've had in months
she even had a flyer and I asked is this about the
earth being flat and she said no it's not it's about an alternative way of
understanding the universe this is amazing so this fire I got on this I
actually I treated like gold and I gifted - some of you may know him I'm
gonna do a probably videos with him soon but Fonseca of the visual politic
Channel on YouTube and I left this for him when I was leaving Prague I left
this with a bottle of whisky as his gift this flyer because it's so amazing and
one of the things in it is they even talk about cognitive dissonance which is
when basically you're so attached to your opinion that you dismiss
alternative views and I thought that was kind of amazing that they're using that
with any half so there are many ways of thinking and if I was to do a video
about the curvature of the earth I would not make it to consider both sides
equally and give merit to both sides because that really risks being taken
out of context clips being used to say look you support this and all that now I
will admit in the multi-level marketing world there are companies that are just
purely scam pyramid schemes looking to drain people's money a great podcast on
this is called the Krypto queen by BBC it's an amazing podcast the story is
great and it's actually really really insightful into how cults and
multi-level marketing manipulate people and get good people who maybe are just
really busy or not the most educated or just haven't come across these sorts of
things before and how they manipulate people into it the crypto Queen highly
recommend that podcast and my podcast if you don't let yet listen to podcast and
now you're downloading an app also put in dreams around the world subscribe to
that podcast so I was saying yes there are some that are better I have some
Avon skincare product my girlfriend's aunt does Avon and for Christmas she
gave me some and I have to admit they're pretty awesome some of the products like
okay I'm willing to admit there are companies that are not as brutal but
there's like two out of 10,000 or something like that no your main
question was can you hate a system like how could you say one system is bad
you don't like that and I'll tell you why because you can look at the things
associated with a system in the vast majority of cases and draw some level of
conclusion I'll give you an example which is populous politics or identity
politics I don't need to look at the product whether it's left right forward
back and whatever it is I don't like any kind of politics that's really based on
playing identity cards as based on populism us-versus-them and all that
sort of thing I think it's bad no matter what the product is the product in that
case would be the policies I think that system of doing politics basically that
system of how you manipulate people to get votes your way of basically
presenting yourself stirring people against one another
I think that's bad regardless of what side of the whole thing that you're
actually on cults are a similar thing in maybe kind of similar to multi-level
marketing while we're on the topic there is basically a standardized procedure to
start a cult and indoctrinate people and yes maybe a few of those cults are not
as evil as others or whatever but it's pretty established how they indoctrinate
people and it's the same thing so whether at the end of the day it's
like an LSD murderous sex cult happening in California in the 60s for an
ayahuasca fueled sex cult happening in 2020 either way it's the same system the
same thing you find people who were really lost who had a bad childhood who
don't feel loved they're alone you convinced them that there's some great
knowledge and Savior and blah blah blah and then you apply all the social
pressure so people don't want to leave and then you do your call things
whatever it happens to be whether it's branding people murdering people or
selling vitamins to their friends and family it's all the same kind of model
and with multi-level marketing there are standard patterns that go with it
promises of huge incomes and potential when in reality your average person
would earn way more money with less work and less damaging of their relationships
if they just took a sales job they'd also probably learn to sell better with
a proper sales job there's these delusional of beliefs about what you
really are like you're this great entrepreneur who's building your own
business you're a commission only sales person
acting as just that and nothing more and honestly if these multi-level marketing
companies just said hey you're a commission only sales person you work
your own hours if you have a bunch of friends and a wide network who likes to
shower and need shower gel you can sell it to them and make a little money on
the side I'd have no problem with that but that's not how they market and we
all know that that they market based on huge promises and this false belief like
you're great empowered entrepreneur just give us five hundred dollars for your
starter kit and blah blah blah right and there's well-known and this is covered
in the crypto queen that podcast I mentioned which is a must listen to it's
well documented that there are many many people the top performers in multi-level
marketing who jumped from company to company they go to a new company they
bring all their followers they sell all these people on this new dream take all
their money they get rich that company collapses and then they move to the next
one six months later so yeah in some cases I do not mind having a bit of hate
if it saves a lot of people people I care about you on the other end here of
this camera if it saves you from some pain and some headaches and if it does
cost me some clients that Mike ended in his email you know he was saying I was
about to refer my daughter to your programs but I saw this video and I
thought no I don't want to refer her to someone who thinks like that I'm totally
ok with that I would much rather lose some clients then hold back on what I
really believe and let people walk into a situation that can in many cases ruin
one's lives I'm actually going to do an interview hopefully if she agrees I
haven't asked her yet with one of my free freelancer students who told us all
on one of our group coaching calls the other month she just told us about how
she got dragged into a multi-level marketing thing she brought all her
friends and family in and they went to this big event they drove like 500
kilometres or something to this big conference and fortunately she's an INFP
and she had enough intuition that when she got there she just looked at the way
like the speakers were talking and everyone was and just said to her family
and everyone she brought what they're like I'm sorry we need to go this is my
bad but this I see what's going on here now this is some kind of weird cult type
situation terrible take lesson learned so when I get that
interview filmed if she's up for it I will include a link for that at the end
of this video I'm gonna link to a great drawn Oliver video on multi-level
marketing where he can articulate some of the issues with it perhaps better
than me and gets into a lot of the financial details and realities of these
kinds of systems if you want to build a business if you really want to be an
entrepreneur what you have to do you develop a great skill you find a way to
give value for people and you have a business that makes sense that you can
explain to a five-year-old and that people here hey yeah I understand how
that could work that's what you do you don't join the next big thing that's
gonna happen and you're on the ground floor that's doesn't really work unless
you're the ones selling people on that BS thank you for watching sorry for the
hate but haters gotta hate sometimes I guess right catch you in the next video
soon hey there's got a hate haters gonna hate
say it Gaby what you're gonna cut it off you don't like it but that's kind of the
joke of it that I'm not actually a hater but that I'm saying like I'm a hater cuz
that's what like on the MLM videos people always say you're such a hater
bla bla bla they're usually all misspelled comments so there you go if
you're watching these bloopers now it's because Gaby is an amazing video editor
and haters gonna hate
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