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MLMs & LDS: Why are so Many Mormon Women Involved in MLMs? | Multi Level Mondays

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Blair Zoń

Education, Business, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.4961 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Go to http://mintmobile.com/mlm to get your new wireless plan for just $15 a month and free shipping! Welcome to Multi Level Mondays, a weekly series all about multi level marketing, pyramid schemes, and ponzi schemes. Connect With Me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: MLM: Last to Fall- Will Van De Crommert CC: Trauma- Will Van De Crommert PP: Round a Round- Martino Tempersta WWW: King Cobra- Monk Outro Song Credits: MLM: Sacred and Profane- Nicholas Rowe CC: Electronica Punch- Oleksandr Koltsov PP: Relax Yourself- Sleeping Ghost WWW: Jericho- Zac Nelson Ad Music Credits: Tango de Manzana by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4460-tango-de-manzana License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Backbay Lounge by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3408-backbay-lounge License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Multilevel Mondays. A weekly series all about

0:12.0

Pyramid Schemes, Ponzi schemes, multi-level marketing, and other forms of business fraud.

0:17.0

I'm the Illuminati, and today we're going to be talking about something that has been requested quite a bit recently by many of you.

0:26.5

Myself and many of you have obviously picked up on the fact that a lot of MLM's, and I mean

0:31.9

a lot of themMs, and I mean a lot of them, are dominated or founded by Mormons.

0:36.8

The LDS or Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a lot of controversy surrounding it.

0:43.0

Latter-day Saints or Mormons have been justifiably criticized

0:46.5

for historical, revisionism, homophobia, racism,

0:49.8

and sexist policies.

0:51.6

Many argue that the origins of Mormonism themselves are

0:54.4

questionable at best too. However, I'm not going to be talking much about the church

0:58.2

itself today because instead we're going to be focusing on the tie between the Eldia Church and multi-level marketing companies.

1:07.0

Many Mormons have settled in Utah, and today over 2 million or 1 third of the entire Mormon population lives in that state.

1:14.4

The Great Salt Lake Valley was seen as a promised land to many Mormons in the mid 1800s,

1:20.7

though again the entire history of Mormons settling there is quite a long and confusing

1:25.9

one to say the least.

1:27.8

But back to MLMs, according to my sources, Jane Driggs, president and CEO of Utah's Better Business Bureau, said there's about

1:35.0

70 companies registered as MLMs in Utah as of 2018.

1:39.8

Studies from the Consumer Awareness Institute show that over 99

1:42.8

of recruitment-driven MLM sellers lost money and whether or not you want to

1:46.8

look at these studies, MLM's own income disclosures reflect these

1:50.2

numbers pretty consistently. Just the top 15 generate billions in annual

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