I remember in the late 80’s I was working at a hotel, and a super friendly young woman approached me with a pitch about one of these companies, that had a “seminar” starting in a few hours in one of the conference halls. So I said what the heck, and showed up for it. It immediately struck me as completely bizarre and nonsensical- all of the people who were part of the company were hyper ra-ra-ra, overly enthusiastic, cheering… Had some young kid sitting in the center of attention, them going on about how much money and objects he’d earned soooo quickly. The kid sitting there with this dumb smile, saying not a single word, knowing what complete BS everything they were saying was. I walked out after 30 minutes…