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Originally posted by decadence
She brought up a book 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' and recommended it. She went on to say she'd left college to run this new business. A great shame. I ordered the book from Amazon, it's good at motivation and light on substance. It repeats things often and contradicts wildly. It recommends multi-level-marketing, one of the reasons that people involved in these schemes often bring it up. Turns out the author back when it was written couldn't get a publisher and it was either vanity published or there was a very small publishing run. An Amway distributor found it being sold at a car boot sale and liked it's supposed promises of wealth and started to distribute it through the network. The multi-level-marketing comments in it were probably added in at a later edition because of this.
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Oh Lordy, one of the guys I work with was touting "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" like it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. I think that's part of why I am starting to hate my job - too many of my coworkers (mainly those with higher positions) are buying into this corporatespeak motivational bullshit and wondering why we all aren't. I'm not a negative person but this crap just raises my hackles.
And just to clarify a "car boot sale" means they were selling stuff out of the trunk of their car.
