Pyramid Scheme

I am writing this because there are a lot of people going to Universities, hopefully pursuing honest, hard work when they graduate. People who may graduate with degrees like psychology and liberal arts may find it harder to obtain a job than engineering degrees or math degrees (these are facts), but once you guys do get your first legitimate job and experience, hopefully things will even out. But regardless, I hope nobody gets sucked into a pyramid scheme (which can exist in the form of "climbing the company ladder" or a more literal form where you sit through a free seminar with a guy drawing circles on the board with the bigger picture screaming "PYRAMID"). Pyramid schemes were made illegal in many countries, including America, but I think everyone should know that they are, in fact, absolutely everywhere still. And this is a BIG issue that shakes the fundamentals of what money represents and how it should be treated.

I was recently approached by an old high school friend on facebook who introduced me to a company called "Leadership Team Development, Inc" or LTD (look it up!). He was a desperate psychology major who wanted to make money after his disappointment with his pay after college.

[ Just to get things straight here (and hopefully not bore anyone so far as to deter them from the rest of my blog) as defined on Wikipedia:
"A pyramid scheme is a non-sustainable business model that involves the exchange of money primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme, OFTEN without any product or service being delivered...Nowadays, SUBTLER SCHEMES EXIST, whereby wealth is still attained by the pharaoh, by not unless those at the base are also learning." ]

Be very wary of the LEGAL pyramid schemes.... where someone rich and powerful enough found a way to get around the law (like that never happens!)

Pyramid schemes exist in America through major corporations, politics, law and business. Regardless of what we claim to have "criminalized". Whenever there is a CEO making as much as all his employees combined, that is a company that works off a pyramid...(ex: "Bank or America" where top 10 employees make as much as the all the other 200,000 combined). The fact that pyramid schemes exist in the form of legitimate companies should not be any reason to accept this: it should be all the more reason to fight it. In whatever form it exists in.

Pyramid schemes and get-rich quick schemes are dishonorable ways to make money: Precious money, which, when used for it's true purpose should merely be a representation of a debt society owes you. In a sense, obtaining money should only be made from HELPING people, and not at the expense of the lowest, or last to jump on the bandwagon. It is impossible for everyone to win in any realistic world as we know it...but in a pyramid scheme, more importantly, it is impossible for everyone to win at an exponentially increasing rate: in a sense, the more people who succeed, the many more millions there must be who carry the "get rich quick burden" and must fail or work harder to support the undeserving "lords". This is why pyramid schemes are illegal. But the law never stops the rich and corrupt from manipulating it.

America is one of the only cultures to coin the term "making money" where as other cultures go by "earning money", "transferring money", "inheriting money", or "obtaining money". The fact that a culture can exist with the concept that wealth should come from within, so that, in a sense, we can MAKE wealth, is what makes people so productive and society flourish. The instant honest, hard, TANGIBLE work is no longer valued as the highest most honorable level, is the instant a culture/society begins to crumble. It is where slaves are created:where the people who work the hardest labor receive the least respect, and the "pharaohs" at the top of the pyramids manipulating and walking on the masses are revered for it

I noticed everyone on other blogs concerning the "company" my so called friend introduced me to, seemed to be debating the lessor of the two evils: unfair pyramid hierarchies that exits in company ladders with overpaid CEO'S, vs slimy sales-pitched pyramids.

Both are wrong which makes both sides right (in saying that the other side is wrong). Making the only relevant question: Which is worse?
Fight ALL OF IT if you do not want a society built on slaves. And NEVER loose your value by failing to honor tangible, honest, hard work.

Any "get rich quick" attitude is wrong, as we should all be working together for a greater good. Honest people CREATE wealth. The rest of the corrupt simply manipulate it. Given how banks seem to be the highest profitable corporations here in America, ask yourself where this society is headed. Living in a more globally connected business world, go so far as to ask where everyone is headed. It is the people who value hard, tangible skilled work that keep it from crumbling. They are not fools..they are society's saviors.
Regardless of how you make money, just make sure it is not at the expense of anyone else. And more importantly, MAKE money, don't manipulate and simply obtain it.

Get used to being used...otherwise you are absolutely useless!
We are all supposed to be in it together. Everybody.
(who am I to be speaking universal...just little me....but I posted this to remind people of what money is supposed to represent, and how corruption has many different faces.) Money is not the root of all evils, because the root of money comes from brilliant ideas, hard work and passion. It is the people who solely manipulate money that make it evil in their hands.

So good luck to everyone pursuing hard work. I don't ever want to retire, until I am too crippled and incapable of working. I don't mind being used...by other honest and/or skilled persons.