In Scientology, low productiveness (being "downstat" iirc) means that you're either committing secret crimes against the organization, harboring resentments against the organization that you don't acknowledge yourself ("overts" and "coverts") or that you're connected to someone who is. The people committing overts and coverts are the famous "suppressives", and the only way to detect them is through investigating incidents of low productivity. This process of rooting out suppressives is euphemistically referred to as "ethics." Any person who shows low productivity is labeled a "potential trouble source." This is central to the group.

The flip side of this is the fact that people who consistently outperform and bring in cash for the organization ("upstat"?) are not to be questioned. Achievement is its own justification.

So Scientology produces a lot of scammers and hucksters. Also a lot of chiropractors for some reason.

edit: an animated version at https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6hu3ca

Maybe scamming weighs a lot on your spine?

or that chiropracty is mostly pseudoscience

I don't think you're supposed to call it "chiropracty", I think you call it "chiropractic." It's one of those scams so powerful that it bends grammar, like "blockchain."

edit: I noticed this because of my expertise in mathematic.

Similar experience with a local jeweler high up in the church. Employees would have to sit with a coworker and stare at each for like 20 minutes or something. This in the early 2000's.

In 2019 the place was raided and the owner Leo Hamel and a San Diego sheriff's captain and two others were arrested for running a gun trafficking ring after a raid by the FBI turned up over 200 firearms and 100,000 round of ammunition in the jewelry shop that the police officer was giving him.[0]

[0] https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/jeweler-leo-hamel-gui...

Is there something wrong with making fun of billionaires?

First we lost respect for millonaires, and they became billonaires. Now we will make fun of them, so they can become trillonaires! Nobody disrespects a trillonaire, EVER.

> Nobody disrespects a trillonaire, EVER.

Former Zimbabwean quadrillionare here - just chiming in to say you're very wrong; that depends entirely on the currency :)

Billionaires are many things but even the oligarchs with murderous goons are not beyond the reach of mockery of the common man.

we make fun of him _because_ he's a billionaire, you rube