You can join Amway and retire at a young age if you believe your upline diamonds. You can also live in luxury and live happily ever after if you believe your downline diamonds. However, strangely enough, you never actually meet these people and it is unclear whether they are real or just urban legends. Something along the lines of Bigfoot or UFOs. Despite widespread belief in the existence of big foot and UFOs, no conclusive evidence of their existence has ever been discovered, much like diamonds who built a business and then "walked away" from Amway to enjoy residual income for the rest of their lives.
Diamonds are typically associated with a luxurious lifestyle that they enjoy because they are not burdened by financial obligations. In order to provide an analogy, a regular average diamond earns approximately $150k per year (according to Amway). They could earn $200 to $250k per year if they had additional tool income to supplement their income. A Q12 diamond (which is extremely rare) is worth approximately $600,000. A comfortable living wage? Without a doubt.
To put this in context, $600,000 is approximately the minimum wage for an NFL player. To be honest, I believe they make around $500,000. However, the point is that approximately two-thirds of NFL players go bankrupt shortly after they retire from the game. And that 2/3 figure includes those who earn significantly more than the NFL's minimum wage. Excessive living and luxury are frequently cited as factors in the demise of many NFL athletes. So what exactly is the point?
What I'm getting at is that the Amway business is extremely fragile, and a group can quit and knock you out of qualification in an instant. That is to say, a diamond can be disqualified from competition in the same way that an NFL player can be injured or cut from the team. In other words, their income is subject to reduction or cessation at any time. But are we to believe that they live in excessive luxury all of the time, no matter what?
In my opinion, it's all a show, and diamonds are probably forced to live on a budget and save for retirement just like the rest of us. Perhaps tenured diamonds are more secure, but certainly not new ones whose groups are susceptible to disintegration. I believe that while diamonds may give the impression that they live in luxury, reality is likely to paint a very different picture. If you do the math on living a life of luxury, I can assure you that the cost far outweighs the reported diamond incomes from Amway.
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