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between $100 and $150 worth at each. Eventually she realized that, while she

was a fine plastics peddler, there were only so many hours in the week in which

to peddle. So she found twenty other people and sold them on the idea of sell

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ing Tupperware. Each of them would hold five parties weekly, making a total

of one hundred a week between them. She would sell her bowls to those

twenty people for a small profit from each. It wasn’t long before those twenty

people understood the value of “pyramiding” themselves. Soon some had

twenty people selling bowls for each of them.

The rest is multilevel marketing history.

Then my aunt shared a potent bit of wisdom: ...