Most of it is lies though! During the initial lockdown anti-MLM YouTube became my 'binge watch'. The bragging for the overwhelming majority is all fake trying to drag more vulnerable (typically) women in. Yes the conference/trips usually often have funded accommodation, but they typically pay their own travel, food, etc. And to reach targets to attend, most of them are buying huge amounts themselves they'll possibly never sell (would often be cheaper just to pay for a holiday). The cars they get as bonuses in some MLMs are HP or PCP plans taken out in their own names. The MLM will pay the monthly payment providing various targets are consistently met by them and their downlines. Targets missed risk them dropping ranks and losing that bonus, but still tied to a legal contract so suddenly needing to find money to pay their car in months they or downlines they need to make profit off of clearly aren't selling much either. They have been exposed for photographing empty designer packaging to make out they are doing well, etc. >95% of them (obviously slight variations between MLMs) are barely making anything at all by the company income disclosures and they are often based on what a hun is ordering, doesn't then factor in how much is being sold to another person and therefore making the hun money v how much is sitting in their homes/garages bought to meet targets/help an upline meet a target. Most of them will spend more than they'll make! I have friends from childhood sitting with drawers full of Younique, Body Shop and FM, any profit they had made they were encouraged to 'invest' and buy and sit on stock to fulfil orders quicker or to have as samples, etc. Sadly one is sat on thousands and thousands of pounds of Herbalife and credit card debt (yes she got amazing travel 'opportunities' but the garage of herbalife and having paid her own flights, she probably could have travelled so much more alone!).
So yes, I'd agree with not buying from MLMs because of the predatory nature and the fact that the bottom distributers are being sold a complete lie about it being an easy income, or even income at all and the companies are making their money from those 'inside', but the lifestyle most portray online is a complete and utterly fabrication that they are told to show by ugliness desperate to get more people under them. And that lifestyle thing really was a result of social media! 30 years ago the (typically) women selling Kleeneze and Avon, or running Body Shop and Ann Summers parties weren't out there trying to pretend it provided a full time salary and afforded them top of the range cars and luxury holidays. Yes social media has made selling to bigger audiences easier, but it's also meant almost everyone had multiple people in their contacts selling the exact same crap making their actual customer bases probably a lot smaller than the woman who covered a few villages with her Avon.
I hate MLMs almost as much as troofers. Sadly the people they trap are also easily suggestible, struggle to see the truth and are actively discouraged from reading anything about the companies online that isn't directly from the company. And often you'll find it takes a hun ages to see them for what they are, and they'll jump from one to another to another. They realise the money promised isn't coming but will be convinced by uplines they aren't working hard enough, they don't want it enough, they are failing, but instead of seeing it for what it is, they'll be told by another MLM hun it was just a bad MLM or not the right fit, but definitely come to this other MLM and you'll make money here. Rinse and repeat. And don't get me started on the irony of troofers who Do ThEiR oWn ReSeArCh managing to be conned into joining MLMs. If it isn't perfect evidence of them doing absolutely no research and just believing and parroting info from anyone, I don't know what is!
For anyone interested, while I got a lot more info from Anti-MLM YouTube, LuLaRich documentary on Amazon Prime is useful for a bit of background.