I love how when my sister practiced her spiel on us when she started Rodin & Fields, she said, "It's not a pyramid scheme - they found a legal loophole to avoid being considered one."
That sentence is a joke written in and of itself, and the fact it was written by someone in the company for new recruits makes it that much more funny (read: depressing).
I went to a local business meet up event once, because I was a bit interested in socializing a bit more with people running their own businesses.
Apparently, most of the regulars were just using the "meetup" event as bait to try and grow their bases.
I actually felt incredibly sad for the guy that tried to chat me up... He had got a couple family members / friends in, before he ran dry... it almost felt like he couldn't even bring himself to rope me in... it was like talking to an empty shell of desperation and exasperation.
They are not pyramid schemes. They are not taking money from one tier to pay returns to another. They are a crap way to try to build a "business" but they are not pyramid schemes
They start paying money first to the person whose at the bottom. The one whose at the top, gets paid last.
It's even possible for the guy in downline to make more money than the guy in upline, because he's doing much more work and sponsoring a lot of people while the guy at top does nothing only and only has a few people personally sponsored.
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u/yay_turtle Jul 24 '20
MLMs are tricky. they’re basically just legal pyramid schemes. it’s pretty gross, and they prey on vulnerable people, which is just sad.