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MLMs are economic cults and people become almost fanatical about them.

And the leaders of the MLM have extreme power over these people.

Hundreds of thousands, even millions of people, in the same way that some church meters do.

One thing Jane and I determined pretty quickly when we started working on the show was that

we weren't going to find a lot of people coming forward saying they were experts on MLMs.

We've talked about this before, but the industry is very litigious, very secretive.

And that keeps a lot of people from wanting to weigh in.

But that guy, Robert Fitzpatrick, who's been researching the MLM industry for 30 years

since his own involvement in the Pyramid scheme and has been expert witness in multiple

class action lawsuits against MLMs around the country, he was never afraid to call himself

an expert.

In fact, he was never afraid to say anything.

And one of the things he kept saying to me from the very first interview I did with him

to the last is that in his estimation, MLMs are basically just cults.

You couldn't have an economic cult because economics is numbers, except now it's not,

because we've allowed the endless chain to be an economic principle.

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