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Salon
Salon
Politics
Daria Solovieva

The marketing scam we keep falling for

Most Americans have been aware for some time that multi-level marketing schemes are bad — either through recent books or documentaries like LuLaRich. But did you know exactly how bad?

Bridget Read, author of "Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America," wasn’t satisfied with their answers or explanations of what it was, why they’ve become so influential and how they are able to continue exploiting so many of the most vulnerable Americans with little transparency and government oversight. 

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