The stated purpose of the Open meeting is to let distributors bring new people to a public meeting space where they can see the plan shown by a higher-level distributor. Every time distributors attend an Open, they continue to hear the negative statements about jobs, society's financial picture, and how, as Amway distributors, they have the only solution. But since most of the people in the audience are distributors anyway, no one is going to question the speaker's sources. You have to want something different to do something different.
Most products travel through a lengthy process moving from the manufacturer to the consumer.
And along this route, products increase in cost to pay all the middlemen. You then help the 6 people help the 4 people help 2 other people. He then introduces his wife to speak. She sometimes emphasizes the point that if people don't join the business, they'll be making a big mistake. And finally, the meeting ends with either the host or the speaker promoting the next seminar and major function.