I am a Mormon SMB owner, and I agree with your point, but in the interest of full disclosure, there is a darker side to this tendency as well. Utah (read Mormons) is the MLM capital of the world, with other get rich quick schemes being pretty popular as well.
You're probably thinking of entering a Mormon Temple. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints distinguishes between churches where people meet every Sunday, and Temples where more important ceremonies are conducted (and which, incidentally, aren't open on Sunday).
For those who prefer audio (podcast) here's an audio version of it (read by yours truly, though I did clips of Ginsburg whenever he quotes from the poem.)
One additional difference is that the psychic is being personally enriched by the money, whereas the Mormon leaders are not being personally enriched. (At the highest levels they get a stipend, of around 120k/year last I checked). Now this is not true of other churches necessarily, but it is true of the Mormons.
Amazon did something similar to me on a return. I returned a top end pixel book ($1500) UPS said it had been delivered to return center. Amazon said they didn't have it so they weren't going to issue the refund. Despite my receipt from UPS. I did a chargeback, and lo and behold the next day they sent me an email saying they were issuing a refund.
My experience would match lixtra's either get an attorney or write it off, they're punks about this sort of thing.
I did a search for the number 14 and 16 without seeing anything that matched the claim. The closest I saw was
"These men averaged thirty-six years of age
(range: 24-60) and had been married an average of ten years (1-32 years) before marrying a second wife of a mean twenty-five years of age (14-39 years). At that time, their legal wives averaged thirty-two years of age (22-56)."
I'm an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and I've tried to be as educated as possible about the controversial/anti-mormon stuff (for example I've read the CES letter). But this is the first time I've come across this claim:
"During that time [when plural marriage was part of the doctrine] some male followers of the Latter Day Saint movement took dozens of wives each, disproportionately favoring girls between 14 and 16 years old."
There's no reference, does anyone have a source for that?
I'm not sure where you're getting your information. I'm currently in the bishopric of a ward in South Salt Lake, and I think it's rare for a week to go by without writing checks for rent, prescriptions, or utilities. I signed two checks just yesterday.
Dailylit.com is great for getting extra reading in. Beyond that I have "Hard" book that I make sure I read at least 30 minutes a day, to ensure I'm not only reading fluff.
As far as articles go, when I find something that I don't have time for right then I drop it into a "Consume" folder in my bookmarks, and then periodically I go in there and power through some of the stuff, it's not optimal, but as long as you have some way of making sure you periodically check it, it is a trusted system.
I use a filter to send most of my email into a "Batch" folder which I check maybe once a day, if that. The rest of the email I do check first thing in the morning, and like jstanley I get to inbox zero (on the non-batch stuff) every morning before I start working.
We have in-house counsel. And we even have access to a big SF firm. And we are getting both their opinions. But as they say the wheels of justice move slowly, and I basically have to decide on no access, access for one or the other or access for both, while waiting for the lawyers to sort through things. That's the issue.
Encourage differences in opinion, but not to such an extent that you fall into analysis paralysis. Other than that there are no easy answers, this is one of the great problems all startups and even all businesses face.
https://sscpodcast.libsyn.com/meditations-on-moloch