[whatshisface]

>Did participating in an essential oils MLM bankrupt your family? You just didn't want success enough.

That's not about work, that's about money. There's definitely no way to blame money-equals-virtue on Protestantism... That's just human nature.

[framebit]

Exactly right, it's a human nature twist on misinterpreted Protestant theology. Or rather a human instinct dressed up with the language of religion, in this case Protestantism but it could be anything. The manipulative language of MLMs which make money off the failures of their consultants, pulls from this work = salvation misinterpretation that boils down to "you get what you deserve," which is completely at odds with _real_ Protestant (and Catholic, orthodox, other Christian) theology.

[whatshisface]

>you get what you deserve

Ironically, this belief is honestly held by many con artists, who placate their conscience by telling themselves that whoever is stupid "deserves" to be scammed.