# Amway & The DeVos Family: Working Overtime at the Stupid Factory

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Published: 2026-03-12T15:06:00+00:00
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## Resource

Stop your protesting! Stop your organizing! The only thing we need is 🤑 MANIFESTATION 💸 It's time to talk about the Pyramidschemification of America. This episode has so many fun characters: 17th century Puritans, Tammy Faye Baker, Amanda Frances, an MLM hun on a regional jet somewhere over Sandusky, Ohio, and Elizabeth Holmes??? Thanks to our sponsor Orange Marketing Watch on YouTube Advertise with us For bonus episodes and book club join us on Patreon Timestamps: 10:30 - The Puritanical roots of Mulitilevel Marking 21:00 - Stop organizing! Start manifesting! 30:00 - Turns out, Regan pyramidschemified America 35:00 - Betsy Devos putting in 40 hours at the Stupid Idea Factory Links: Little Bosses Everywhere 2023 FTC report on MLMs The Unkillable Appeal of Multilevel Marketing They Spent Their Life Savings on Life Coaching The 'Exciting Business Opportunity' That Ruined Our Lives The Miseducation of Betsy DeVos These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. DeVos held in contempt for violating judge's order on student loans DeVos-Linked Adoption Agency Exposed Highly Sensitive Children's Medical Data Blackwater Guards Found Guilty in 2007 Iraq Killings Email our good news correspondant with tips: elizabethliu526@gmail.com Good News: Media, the nation's first Fair Trade Town, marks 20 years supporting farmers in the developing world Learn more about Fair Trade Certification

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