Dropshippers Get Rich by Making You Feel Poor
Hundreds of influencers claim the path to a fancy lifestyle is selling cheap crap from China. (Illustration by The Free Press, images via Getty and Unsplash)
Teaching people how to sell stuff is a lot more profitable than actually selling it.
Maddy Glynn wants me to feel poor. “If you’re in your 20s or 30s and you’re not making at least ten thousand dollars a month,” she starts one TikTok, “Watch this.” Maddy, who has nearly 250,000 followers on the platform, is tan, blonde, telegenic, and 24 years old, is standing in a house with bare off-white walls and a few immaculately placed houseplant…
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