MLMs Are Not Pyramid Schemes

The biggest epiphany I had watching the 2022 anti-MLM conference was that calling MLMs pyramid schemes drastically understates the damage MLMs do. MLM gurus and FTC regulators are both correct in refusing to say MLMs are pyramid schemes. Pyramids schemes are only 90% likely for you to lose money while MLMs are 99%. When a pyramid scheme rips you off for a few thousand dollars it moves on to find a new sucker, but when an MLM does the same it is just getting started with you...

Pyramid schemes don't try to milk you for money for the rest of your life.

Pyramid schemes don't try to hook you into a continuous payment plan on your credit card that is hard to cancel when you don't want to pay anymore.

Pyramid schemes don't make you sign contracts that make it impossible for you to sue them.

Pyramid schemes don't promise business training but instead deliver dumb visualizations of your wild fantasies.

Pyramid schemes don't try to dominate your ideology or spiritual practices.

Pyramid schemes don't wreck your religious congregation.

Pyramid schemes don't train you to lie about the lifestyle you are living in order to find more recruits.

Pyramid schemes don't try to fill your life with fake friendships that disappear when it all finally falls apart.

Pyramid schemes don't take much time away from your family.

Pyramid schemes don't tell you to drop out of school or quit your day job.

Pyramid schemes don't get you hyped about questionable products you would otherwise have no interest in.

Pyramid schemes don't train you to lie about products you are selling.

Pyramid schemes don't threaten your health by encouraging you to get into quack medical products instead of seeking legitimate medical treatment.

Pyramid schemes don't pay off politicians to legalize their unethical business model.

Pyramids schemes don't use the WTO and UN as vehicles to infiltrate developing economies.

Pyramid schemes don't encourage victims to get microloans intended to address poverty and then compound that debt by becoming MLM distributors.

Pyramid schemes don't leach a trillion dollars per year out of the global economy.

MLMs are not pyramid schemes because MLMs are far more lethal for individuals, families, communities and the world.