Any life insurance payout is a bonus. I had a client stomped to death by her husband after a $7500 worker’s comp settlement payment. So dollar amount not necessarily indicative of anything except free money.
Cult profits bc a member is sucked in deeper. And will do more things for the cult. If the cult can get you to kill your kids, they REALLY have your mind warped. And will use that for whatever purpose they need to fill their needs. Sell more books. Tapes. Seminars. Sex. Money. Property. Murder. Drugs. You name it. There’s a cult for it.
And I bet LE considers other groups which use religion, doomsday, superior race or any other common ideology as their foundation, as cults, even though they may not rise to provable criminal conduct. Ponzi schemes come to mind. Some multi level marketing companies are another example. People get sucked up into the leader’s rhetoric, and they just go off the deep end. Entire countries have gotten sucked up into a politician’s line of control.
So, where’s the cut off? I don’t know. But I think the closer you get to crime to benefit the leaders, the more a group of people with the same ideologies rises to cult like status.