To be an IBO....
This stems from a personal encounter sometime ago - and in ways although it may sound funny to some its quite a quagmire for others.
'Friends, Romans, Countrymen.... lend me your ears' - so said a confident Mark Antony after the death of Caesar. Confident because the mob was fickle, easily swayed by emotion and rhetoric. Although we have come a long way since those times the mob mentality still prevails among the sundry. And so goes my tale........
They filed in silently one by one, each in his finest - eyes gleaming with the possibilities of untold wealth; it seemed so simple. The speaker moved in, the jet-setting personality complete with the slick black hair. Unless I am truly mistaken there was a smile - possibly a smirk on his face as he evaluated the people come to listen to him talk.
He came with a dream - be your own man, have your own business, have a 'pipe' income instead of a 'bucket' income and gave them countless other possibilities. At each pause there was a meek applause followed by a furious scribbling on their pads and he described how they could become RICH - RICH beyond all their imaginations, fulfill their dreams and desires...
What did the poor folk there realize that being an Independent Business Owner (IBO) , yup, that's what he called it was more of a pipe dream rather than a pipe spitting out greenbacks. Such pyramidal schemes were out to catch the unwitting person - ensnare him with their ideology so that he would be enslaved to feed their pockets. I could help but sit back and smile, with a heart filled with pity for these individuals who would now move to on to use their hard earned money and time to vainly try and make a few dollars more. The 'evil empire' had many names - once Amway now risen again as Quixstar and God alone know what other fronts to rob people of their hard earned wealth.
In someways Antony again echoes in my ear - 'this is but.... a mob'
'Friends, Romans, Countrymen.... lend me your ears' - so said a confident Mark Antony after the death of Caesar. Confident because the mob was fickle, easily swayed by emotion and rhetoric. Although we have come a long way since those times the mob mentality still prevails among the sundry. And so goes my tale........
They filed in silently one by one, each in his finest - eyes gleaming with the possibilities of untold wealth; it seemed so simple. The speaker moved in, the jet-setting personality complete with the slick black hair. Unless I am truly mistaken there was a smile - possibly a smirk on his face as he evaluated the people come to listen to him talk.
He came with a dream - be your own man, have your own business, have a 'pipe' income instead of a 'bucket' income and gave them countless other possibilities. At each pause there was a meek applause followed by a furious scribbling on their pads and he described how they could become RICH - RICH beyond all their imaginations, fulfill their dreams and desires...
What did the poor folk there realize that being an Independent Business Owner (IBO) , yup, that's what he called it was more of a pipe dream rather than a pipe spitting out greenbacks. Such pyramidal schemes were out to catch the unwitting person - ensnare him with their ideology so that he would be enslaved to feed their pockets. I could help but sit back and smile, with a heart filled with pity for these individuals who would now move to on to use their hard earned money and time to vainly try and make a few dollars more. The 'evil empire' had many names - once Amway now risen again as Quixstar and God alone know what other fronts to rob people of their hard earned wealth.
In someways Antony again echoes in my ear - 'this is but.... a mob'
posted by Joseph Noronha @ 4:07 PM
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