By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/06/2026But *none* of these "entrepreneurs" knows it, or admits it to anyone - not their "downlines" (friends they've lured into the swindle), nor their "uplines" (friends who recruited *them* into the con). 4/ 1733
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/06/2026Each pyramid scheme victim thinks that *they're* the only failure in the whole bunch. They go to massive "sales conferences" where people boast about all the sales they're making, and *they're all lying about it*. 5/ 312313
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/06/2026Incredibly, the pyramid schemers who run these criminal enterprises have figured out how to make a virtue out of this situation: they offer "sales coaching" courses to help people make the sales that "everyone else is making." 6/ 5834
