How MLMs Exploit Their Members

• 💸 Members are encouraged to spend money on material displays of wealth to lure people into the business opportunity.
• 📚 Top members host conferences and sell overpriced books, seminars, and courses, generating additional revenue with high margins.
• 🚫 Members are told to cut off communications with friends and family who don't join the business, making it hard for them to leave the scheme.

The Damage Caused by MLMs

• 💔 MLMs ruin people financially, but also damage their relationships and social connections.
• 🌎 Pyramid schemes may have never worked in the shadows to subvert democracy or run the world's largest mercenary organization, but some MLMs have done so with their multi-billion dollar fortunes.
• 🚫 The business structure of MLMs forms multiple pyramids, each with a charismatic leader, and is heavily segregated by race and religion.