[lifestyleguru]

Colleagues in workplace started buying and were receiving commission by referencing next client. Trained salesman visited home and used all dirty sales tricks and pitches. Until now I remember "don't say this vacuum is expensive, this is Mercedes of vacuum cleaners, everyone desires even a substitute of Mercedes", or "a salesman enters someone's home with an attitude that they own him the commission money". You grew up in Communism with an absolute shortage of everything and are unable to evaluate good value in market economy. Fuck this manipulative psychopats.

[AussieWog93]

>Colleagues in workplace started buying and were receiving commission by referencing next client.

You can blame the West as much as you want, but it sounds like Poles were stabbing Poles in the back too.

[lifestyleguru]

In novel free market and democratic ways. That was extremely bitter realization. The reward for hardships so far was a new wave of MLMs, cults, sects, scams, and whatnot.

[cynicalsecurity]

It was still way better than Soviet occupation. But I get it, it was hugely disappointing.

[to11mtm]

We do still have them right here in the US-of-A but they tend to be more clever in packaging... Mary Kay, Amway [0], people working IT at state colleges known for IT but paid for a weird 'stock tip' ponzi email thing, heck I know between 2007ish-2013ish a couple close friends bought into this weird "I'm a cellular reseller" MLM thing...

[0] - Still remember when some otherwise very bright folks got wrapped up in 'Team of Destiny' which was basically Amway over the internet back in 2001-2002ish times.

[mik1998]

PRL was not "Soviet occupation", unless you're referring to parts of Poland during 1939-45