Thanks for your insight. The biggest surprise to me is they discourage their members from having kids. Don’t (nearly?) all cults/religions encourage their members to be fruitful and multiply because the easiest way to get someone into their stuff is through their parents? Weird.
Scientology is more about short term financial gains than head count. They encourage/train their members to have profitable careers. Having children makes it difficult to focus on running a business etc. The more money you make, the more money the cult can get out of you.
They just have to keep recruiting more people, so the long term survival would be predicated on the expectation that they won’t ever recruit enough to starve their own supply. If they did reach that point, they’d probably change their policies.
But I don’t think grifters care about the long term anyway. If they can make enough bank in the short term, they don’t need to develop a sustainable strategy for what happens if their cash cow eventually hits the growth limit or starts reversing.
Thanks for your insight. The biggest surprise to me is they discourage their members from having kids. Don’t (nearly?) all cults/religions encourage their members to be fruitful and multiply because the easiest way to get someone into their stuff is through their parents? Weird.
Scientology is more about short term financial gains than head count. They encourage/train their members to have profitable careers. Having children makes it difficult to focus on running a business etc. The more money you make, the more money the cult can get out of you.
I feel like that’s a very short sighted way to run a cult/religion, but you can’t argue with success. They seem to be growing just fine.
They just have to keep recruiting more people, so the long term survival would be predicated on the expectation that they won’t ever recruit enough to starve their own supply. If they did reach that point, they’d probably change their policies.
But I don’t think grifters care about the long term anyway. If they can make enough bank in the short term, they don’t need to develop a sustainable strategy for what happens if their cash cow eventually hits the growth limit or starts reversing.
I get that it’s a strategy that apparently works better than it doesn’t, I just feel that it’s not as smart as indoctrinating many children.
I think it’s more about squeezing money from the present than anything elss
The old kill the golden goose strategy.