Wow, I feel for some of you who have watched your family squander a ton of money on the org and especially when the scriptures makes mention many times that ones should look after their own families, I agree that have insidiuosly got people to hand over the lifes fortune to them. I was thinking about several other features of my questions
How many pieces of lit has been printed? If they have printed over 2 billion pieces of lit and only 6 million witnesses that is only .003 return, in the advertising world and a normal MLM that is a terrible return.
How much money spent annually? The last figure I seen over six years ago was over 73 million annually, sad there is where much of the retirement and will money has gone, on people living off others and their families, when the Bible says that if you don't provide for your own, you are worse than people withot faith. Also, if that money was properly invested in even a safe CD, WOW what kind of return would that bring, instead, they have spent in on people that have left their ranks without any return.
Time, who knows and I am not just counting FS time which is inflated anyway? Billions of hours, even at minimal wage, they could be the richest of all org or very close to it.
What kind of return do you think this is? There is no investor out there who would continue to pour time and money into an org that has to use fear and mind control over its members to stay afloat.
I really appreciate all the other responses and sorry to hear how your family has given so much and how it was done.
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