Re:The seedy underbelly of the life coaching industry
by shermantanktop on Thursday February 08, 2024 @09:33AM
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Hiring someone to paint your house? Sure, it’s worth it or not. But anyone in the advice-giving business can easily end up in a relationship with their clients that is more like a therapist. And therapy is extremely prone to creating unexpected levels of influence on decision-making. Remove all professional standards, licensing bodies, or even job titles, and of course the MLM-type manipulators will show up to the party.
The nature of being adults with money and agency is that people will be trying to sell you things, and you will largely be permitted to give them money for their product. If you don't like the product, don't buy it. It's one thing if we're regulating something like food or drugs, where the average consumer can't possibly verify if e.g. an ingredient list is misleading, but here you're just straightforwardly getting some advice/coaching -- kinda up to you to decide whether it's worth it.