Why Do You Care So Much?
Mary Kay didn’t work out for you. That’s fine. Not everything works for everyone. But this entire site feels like an overreaction. You had a bad experience, and now you’re trying to convince the world that anyone who enjoys the business is either lying or delusional. It’s just not true.
I’ve been in Mary Kay for five years. I don’t drive a Cadillac. I’m not a director. But I make a little extra income, I love the people, and it gives me a creative outlet. No one pressures me. I order what I want, when I want. Is it always perfect? No. But it’s not the nightmare you make it out to be either.
You call it “truth,” but what I see is an echo chamber. You attack anyone who says something positive. You assume everyone who stayed is being manipulated. That’s just your narrative. Let people have their own experiences. Just because you didn’t find success doesn’t mean no one else can. You walked away. So why do you care so much?
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“So why do you care so much?”
MLMs like Mary Kay are peddled as an opportunity for most, when in reality, the overwhelming majority of participants must lose money for the system to function. This is unfortunately the reality of all pay-to-play endless-chain recruiting schemes. These losses are not due to participant shortcomings. These losses are integral to the design of the system. These losses are what power the system. It cannot function otherwise.
There is a reason no MLM downline can be profitable as a whole. In the aggregate, the participants will spend much more than they will ever get back from the MLM. In the case of Mary Kay, this difference is literally how MKC makes money. MKC has no other revenue stream. Participant losses, not end-consumer sales, are the very heart of Mary Kay Corporation’s revenue stream. It has to be this way, since MKC has no other revenue stream.
In traditional companies, every participant can make positive income because revenue comes from sales to outside customers, not from the pocketbooks of the sales force. In MLMs like Mary Kay, positive income is possible only for a teeny tiny fraction of participants…funded by the losses of the rest of the participants.
This is why I care.