Thanks, Sonnie Dee, for the info about who does/doesn't get paid. I'm amazed that even some of the people who run the seminars are "volunteers," too.
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Regardless of just whom works for cheap and who works for nothing, I think my point and question of JF still stands. I do hope you (Glam and Acid Raindeer) agree in this regard.
I don't think Landmark should be a for-profit business or a non-profit business; I think they should be [b:5e227b9101]out[/b:5e227b9101] of business.
I also don't necessarily believe that the unpaid labor force is what keeps Landmark profitable; I think it's what keeps them SUPER profitable. After all, most companies still manage to turn a profit while paying all of their employees a decent wage. Landmark's eliminated most of the expenses associated with payroll and benefits, as well as advertising and marketing (because their seminar attendees and "assistants" do most of the advertising for them, free). So it stands to reason that Landmark makes much more profit than a comparably-sized corporation. And that the top people make piles of money off what amounts to slave labor.
How they continue to get away with this in the USA is beyond me. Aren't there laws about paying people and offering benefits if you're a for-profit company?