We Shouldn’t Shame Privileged Women For Falling For MLM Schemes

First and foremost, we should shame them for working at all, instead. The Bible states (I'm guessing) that women should put everything aside to serve men. Sometimes we are all too tempted to live a glamorous life, in cities with flourishing industries and opportunities for professional growth or wanting to be able to pay rent and buy enough food to not starve.

A few of my dearest friends have acquired positions at places that are considered by most (and the BBB) to be "pyramid" or "MLM" schemes.

Yes, Vicki, Vickie and Vicki Y. did spend the better part of the last decade insulting the working mothers at our local daycare and they all went out of their way to spread vicious rumors about other women for "neglecting their kids" by having a job. There were plenty of loaded comments about how motherhood is the highest and most wonderful calling and how it was such a shame that some women were too greedy to see that.

But that doesn't mean that privileged women who fall for MLM schemes should be shamed for taking the most exploitative-of-their-loved-ones route to having their own career, even after sneering at others for wanting to work for years and years. They deserve our empathy (and I am, of course, the first to point this out).