Is Amway Global all it is cracked up to be? Do Amway recruiters lie? Do Amway 'true believers' follow insane 'pseudo-science' business training which encourages them to be their own best customers and actually believe this is a wise pursuit by the insane tools that the Amway 'kingpins' encourage them to also buy?
Alan Scherstuhl has written a article in the Village Voice titled Inspirational Business Writing Hits A New Low with Studies in Crap and Pro-Sumer Power! where he takes a comical 'pot shot' at Pro-Sumer Power! How to Create Wealth by Spending Smarter, Not Cheaper, a book written by Bill Quain, PhD. Supposedly, this Bill Quain has a doctorate in 'Educational Administration' and has also written a tome titled The Quixtar Price Is Right, another reality bending work by this supposed genius of education.
Amway believers have long been taught, encouraged, and audited by their upline mentors to be the #1 consumers of their own products, all while they are also taught that this makes good business sense. They are also taught to buy all the mind numbing crap--known as tools--from the Amway kingpins which support this insane logic. In Scherstuhl's article, he exposes the 'reality inverting' logic that Amway cultists are expected to believe. This insanity has been given a name: "pro-sumer"--a reality inverting 'neologism' which combines the words 'producer' and 'consumer'.
"In all of Pro-Sumer Power!, the first book I've ever wanted to punch in the crotch, there is but one flicker of genuine inspiration, and that's right there in the title. Apparently, we're now free to swap prefixes and root-words as we please. After pro-suming, who's up for a ride on a circum-cycle with an para-hobo?" ...Alan Scherstuhl
Being a 'prosumer' might be described as 'eating while making a deposit in the loo!' Shurstuhl describes Dr Quain's reality inverting tomes as being on par with L. Ron Hubbard's 'Dianetics' and 'Battleground Earth' which are also supposed pseudo-science 'crap books' which lead thousands of people down Scientology's path of deception. Amway and Scientology, Apart From the Labels, What's the Difference?
Dr. Quain's wonderful screw-ball books actually describe how Amway cult adherents are lead to believe that Amway's 'closed market swindle' can make all their 'prosperity dreams' come true. The same type of folks who believe in Dr. Quain's works might also enjoy L. Ron Hubbard's books as well. Both defy reality! Please give Inspirational Business Writing Hits A New Low with Studies in Crap and Pro-Sumer Power! a read. Find out how neologisms like Prosumer make little sense, and be sure to see the wonderful supportive graphics Dr. Quain uses to support his premises.
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3 comments:
The book is a joke. Anyone can do the math and understand that you do not spend yourself to prosperity. And it is not true that business owners in general buy or consume the goods that they sell. If you owned a burger king, would you eat whoppers every day? I think not.
Also, Amway IBOs need to understand something. When they buy double x or some other Amwya product, Amway gets paid, not them.
All you get for being a *cough* *cough" prosumer, is a rebate which is already built into the cost of the product.
That book is hilarious. Anyone who believes that chart of internet money going up and up forever is in for serious trouble when the high pressure talk starts.
hecuba...
These kinds of books are sold to convince the dream believing dupes who buy them that paying way more for something makes some kind of sense.
The stupidest thing I've heard Amway people say is "Do other stores pay you for shopping with them?" Hmmmmm? What, so they get a discount off of products that still cost way more than you might find anywhere else cheaper?
Joecool is correct. The price paid in the end is really just the retail price as the so called 'discount' is padded in. Any retailer knows that 'discounting' is one of the oldest mental manipulations around. Nearly all stores advertise discounts or every day low prices and the like to suck the unwary in.
These IBO dupes who do all the buying need 'mental tweeking' to make them believe that paying more for something makes good sense, so here comes Dr. Quain and stupid books like 'Pro-sumer' and 'Quixtar The Price Is Right' books'; incredible nonsense!
Pro-sumer makes suckers out of people willing to believe such insane logic. And yet, it is these kinds of books, which can be bought at flea markets and yard sales for a few cents, that are sold at a premium price by tool kingpins, like Dexter Yager, Ron Puryear and others. This explains why people fall for stupid scams like the Nigerian check scams. P.T. Barnum says that there is a fool born every day. Yep, they become Amway reps!
Yes, that graphic with the arrow pointing straight up and to the right is hilarious indeed. I don't know why they didn't picture people actually taking a ride on it?
Joecool, our good friend Tex probably has several copies of Dr. Quain's wonderful books in his 'tool house,' all most likely bought on eBay for pennies on the dollar. *snicker-snicker*
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