[nashashmi]

If you were ever part of an MLM network, or quixtar or amway, or anybody who was ever big on 'selling' things, you would know better than to read the news. A typical newspaper has a ginormous amount of negative articles. HN is different though.

[aaronem]

You assume, I think without justification, that someone sufficiently ill-equipped that he cannot avoid being suckered into a Ponzi scheme, is nonetheless capable of recognizing the deleterious effect of excessive news consumption. (I've known a few such people myself -- they were decent enough, mostly, but generally encumbered with a regrettable excess of credulity.)

[normloman]

I'm curious. What does Multi Level Marketing have to do with news consumption? Why do MLM people know better than to read the news?