If that is true, then what an ingenious and grand trap it is!
Get into scientology and all your lies will come true!
Also...
Scientology is a brand - It's first asset is the tademark - Scientlogy(tm) and every time someone uses it in a positive sense you increase it's commercial value. (might be worth thinking about, Fluffy - no offense or poking intended)
Scientology is a Business.
It is incorporated at every level.
It has Assets - Intellectual poperty - books, course curriculums, talk-therapy procedures. It has buildings and Cash.
It has tax strategies - capital write offs, religious status, bad debt write offs etc. Rather like the Catholic church which used to charge exhorbitant amounts for essentials that only they were allowed to do , like burials, christenings, prayers said by the priests, blessing new buildings etc. Did you know, for example, that the church owns 80% of all real estate in Germany? Imagine if Scn owned 80% of the real estate in your home town? Scary.
It has employees who are given tasks for which they are responsible in exchange for a living. ( I remember at one time in one org I had to sign a pay sheet for a reasonable wage and it was explained that they had to show they were payng us. When I said, "well where is the money?" they said, we're using it to pay your room and board. LOL) It has heirachies of staff which are used, abused and as solid as rocks. In scn this even encompasses customers ( FMS, OT committees etc)
As in any business, the payroll is kept as low as possible to increase profit.
It has staff retention strategies - loyalty programs, indctrination processes, training programs.
It has owners - invisable to the employees, behind all the corporate structures there are human beings who control the assets and are beneficiaries of the for-profit corporations. Scientology's owner(s) consider themselves a different species than the employees who are deliberately kept in the dark- this is not unusual. Staff are often considered expendable.
It has a market - People who wish to improve their ability to live life and to gain certainty that there is an afterlife they can be in control of.
It has promotional strategies - advertising in the guide of PR, books as the ambassadores of the serice. Wallet share strategies to find ways to gain more and more of the customer base's disosable icome ( and even their nondisposable income). It has well trained sales people who have rapport strategies ( arc & the tone scale) carrots ( level EPs) and sticks ( SP declares, witolding of services family disconnection). Like many businesses, in order to help the sales people sell, the sales people have access to try the products and services so they can rave about how good they are and they can be attractive to the prospective customer. ("Ooh, I want to see that OT V Reg, he's really powerful (high status/sexy)")
It has client retention strategies - customer loyalty programs, "doom" campaigns to convince customers their services are not just good but essential to life. Their biggest retention strategy is SILENCE. By culturally imposing silence about the quality of service and the quality of value for money they limit refunds and ensure discontent does not spread through the customer base. Like any business it uses internal PR strategies to retain customes - success stories, magazines, etc.
Every product or service is also a PR tool. Every course hs PR in it - The Code of a Scientologist, Auditor's code, Axioms ( who doesn't like being told they are powerful?), KSW.
Scientology has "Loss Leaders" - small, low cost programs that engage the custome and allow the business to build trust. Traditionally these make no profir for the business but bring in a flow of customers, qualifying out those who "Wont pay" so time isn't wasted inding that out.
Scientology uses "strategic alliances". In he scientology world there is such distrust between scn and other businesses that scn has had to make their own - narconon, cchr, wise etc.
Like many businesses in the weight loss industry, or the beauty industry or others there is little or no value in these services. Remember business does not charge for value they charge for PERCEIVED VALUE .... you don't think your BMW or Porsche really cost ten times as much to build, do you?
Scientology is trademark exploited by a for-profit business.