{"id":248,"date":"2013-10-11T08:50:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T08:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/10\/11\/penn-teller-vs-multi-level-marketing-biz\/"},"modified":"2013-10-11T08:50:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T08:50:17","slug":"penn-teller-vs-multi-level-marketing-biz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/10\/penn-teller-vs-multi-level-marketing-biz\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn &#038; Teller vs. Multi-Level Marketing #biz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a huge fan of Penn &#038; Teller&#8217;s program <I>BULLSHIT!<\/I>&#8211;Penn Jillette&#8217;s rhetorical style is often senselessly inflammatory, and his gloss of Social Security in this particular episode is simplified to the point of complete distortion&#8211;but theatrical yelling aside, this is both a heartbreaking and informative snapshot of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Multi-level_marketing\">multi-level marketing<\/a>.&#8221;  It&#8217;s shocking how many hours well-meaning people fruitlessly sink into these hopeless mutli-level sales schemes; the folk taking advantage of their earnestness and dedication is absolutely contemptible.<br \/>\n<a title=\"\u25b6 Penn &#038; Teller: Bullshit! - Season 8 Episode 5 - Easy Money - YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ep3pO7X7fEQ&#038;feature=youtu.be\">\u25b6 Penn &#038; Teller: Bullshit! &#8211; Season 8 Episode 5 &#8211; Easy Money &#8211; YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ep3pO7X7fEQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a huge fan of Penn &#038; Teller&#8217;s program BULLSHIT!&#8211;Penn Jillette&#8217;s rhetorical style is often senselessly inflammatory, and his gloss of Social Security in this particular episode is simplified to the point of complete distortion&#8211;but theatrical yelling aside, this is both a heartbreaking and informative snapshot of &#8220;multi-level marketing.&#8221; It&#8217;s shocking how many hours &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/10\/penn-teller-vs-multi-level-marketing-biz\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Penn &#038; Teller vs. Multi-Level Marketing #biz&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}