United Airlines from Chicago to Los Angeles was packed with people returning from the Herbalife convention in Atlanta. “There were 38,000 of us and Elton John opened,” one woman from Australia noted (she was rather on the square side and not someone you’d expect to ask “Lose weight now, ask me how”). It occurred to me that on nearly every commercial airline flight that I’ve taken in the past year I’ve run into someone who was traveling to or from a multi-level marketing (a.ka. “pyramid scheme”) convention. If the airlines want to improve their financials they should use their federal subsidies, most of which in recent years have gone to paying executive salaries, to seed more multi-level marketing companies.
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I’m always at a loss when we bail people out for little incentive and then see that the executive tier is still getting multi-million kick backs.
Feces falls upwards,
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Actually, the airlines are surviving (sort of) by using bankruptcy as a tool to get out of their very expensive compensation and pension commitments.