I am NOT reading the above book.  It is for illustrative purposes only.

Used to be Amway. Then everyone got wise to Amway.  So they started selling candles and fake jewelry under another name. Last year, it was Arbonne cosmetics that would change your life.  This year, it's acai juice. It's a pyramid scheme, and the guy who is bottling the supposedly purest form of it was shut down by the FDA previously for selling some other juice.

Why do people fall for this?  I'm not saying it's not a decent product even.  I'm just saying don't shove it down my throat.  If I don't want it, leave me alone.  Here is what I will tell the next person that comes up to me at the office and will not take no for an answer:

1.  I want to have LESS energy, not more. 
2.  I plan to live a short life.
3.  I desire to appear at least twenty years older than I actually am.
4.  I enjoy headaches, gastric complaints, and slow recovery from injuries and illness the way most people
    enjoy vacations.
5.  I love the feeling of oxidants running rampant all over my body.
6.  What I'd really like is to be a huge burden to my children as I age and to die a slow, miserable, painful death all alone.
7. Therefore, your product is not for me.  Now leave me alone.

And worse than people who "fall for it," because those people are innocent ignorants are the buzzards.  These are folks who enjoy preying on others.  One would have to have at least a little of this mentality in order to try this marketing type.  You know in your head that you cannot make any money just by selling the product. You must recruit others and get a commission from them.  Yet you pretend that the reason you can't buy it in a store like a normal product is because it's so good. The real reason is that if you get them to a meeting, they get sucked in by guilt and/or greed.

The product may be very good. I've some the research on acai and I buy the type that's in Publix.  So if the product's so great, why can't I buy it there?  Because the whole system is based on getting bozos at the bottom to step on.  If I can't buy it in a store or online and not be hassled about it, then it supports an archaic, feudal business plan that I feel is not only vulture-like, but un-democratic. 

I would rather invite hordes of Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons into my home than one pyramid schemer.

Whew.  Rant over.

The blue ones will fly right at your face - the butterfly version of "Chicken."  This was also in Key West.