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In a somewhat unexpected line-up, Canadian clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson, former US President George W. Bush, basketball star Kobe Bryant, and Oakland Athletics executive Billy Beane will be brought together in July at the People Helping People Conference in July, The Daily Beast reported.
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The guest speakers of the convention, organised by insurance sales company PHP Agency, were announced on the firm’s website, as well as via a poster shared by a Twitter user that features the orators arranged around Patrick Bet-David, the firm’s CEO.
The Daily Beast has doubled down on long-running rumours that PHP Agency is a multilevel marketing company, which means that it encourages existing employees to recruit new, lower-ranking, ones, who will then funnel their sales commissions upwards – something which Bet-David denied in a conversation with the media outlet.
The publication then referred to a whole Reddit forum devoted to discussions of multilevel marketing companies, with numerous users accusing PHP Agency of being a pyramid scheme – something which Bet-David denied in a conversation with the media outlet.
Still, social media users likewise tend to think that the company is a scam, and have expressed their surprise at learning that those celebrities, in particular Peterson, have joined “the dark side”:
Some netizens directly addressed the author of “12 Rules for Life”, wondering whether the information about his participation was true:
Others suggested that the logo on the poster was ripped off from the Autobots, the good robots from the biopic “Transformers”:
Aside from criticism, many made jokes about Peterson’s anticipated speech, and suggested that the professor would share some advice with attendees from his bestselling book on the need to make their beds every day: