The pressure to sell and recruit has led to underhanded tactics that strain, fracture and sometimes end friendships and family relationships. The structure of MLMs is to blame for many of those “Let’s catch up!” Facebook messages piling up in your inbox. I felt like an idiot for thinking we were actually friends.”Many unsuspecting women have relayed being pursued for get-togethers by MLM friends to the point of feeling stalked. “Also, while my mom was in hospice, my sister attempted one final sale by having her MLM friend try to sell to my mom,” she said. MLMs exploits so many of the fault lines around women and the economy — women remain underpaid in the workplace and undervalued as stay-at-home mothers.

Source: Washington Post January 21, 2019 11:01 UTC