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And then everyone stood up and clapped (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 81 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It’s classic MLM dynamics

The money makes itself! It’s impossible to not make money with this system!
You get to be the boss!
If you’re not making money, you must be doing it wrong — my (paid) training course can help
Heaps of unsold product rotting in garage/warehouse
Religious-coded language
Requires infinite growth to stay profitable for all current players
FOMO, “getting in on the ground floor”
Mid-levels taking huge financial risks to onboard more down-levels

[–] invictvs@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago

Well, LLM spells awfully similar to MLM

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

And the people shucking AI now have just repurposed their crypto hustles.