My sister started pushing Plexus in March of this year despite me telling her multiple times it is nothing more than a pyramid scheme. There must be hundreds of these "lotions, potions, and pills" MLMs that are conning people out of their money every month. What's sad is that these "ambassadors" or "leaders" in each scheme think they're actually employees of the Company. They don't understand that they themselves are the customers through their monthly minimum commitments.
Anyway, to your point, yes there seem to be a disturbing amount running around on social media lately. Social media itself is the reason more of these scams are around - it creates a free marketing platform. I recently saw a video posted by an old high school classmate I haven't talked to in 13+ years defending all MLMs saying that maybe we, the audience, should "take a minute to really learn more about these valuable products and give our friends the benefit of the doubt."
The most unsettling aspect of all this garbage is why so many people are being driven to such schemes. In a world of stagnant wages, rising housing costs, rising medical premiums, etc. people are barely getting by today - granted that's probably because of consumerism-based decisions they made for themselves. Nonetheless, they are easily tricked into "selling these products from home on their own time" to make an "extra $100 per month" or "afford that car payment". This is definitely why my sister started. The middle class is being destroyed right now and the disparity of wealth in this country has never been greater.
Take Seattle, for example, where our city is absolutely booming. Business has never been better. Real estate has far surpassed its 2006 highs and yet we, alongside L.A. and Portland just declared a state of homelessness emergency. Our homeless rate is up 22% year-over-year while myself, fellow Mustachians, and asset owners in general are growing ever wealthier through ZIRP and soon to be NIRP policies.
I'm not a socialist, far from in fact, but the fabric of society is being unwoven and it just feels like we're creating extreme instability through current policies. I guess I'm thankful for a mustachian upbringing that allows financial independence.
Really went on kind of a scattered tangent there, but anybody else feeling the same in their own cities?