"Traveling crews have been exploiting young workers and scamming customers for decades – and neither law enforcement nor Congress has been able to do anything about it." The Atlantic reports on the sad world of "mag crews."

[Former mag crew salesperson Stephanie Dobbs] says sellers get 50 percent of the first chunk—their “front-end sales”—plus points to work their way up the system.

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