Is Multi-Level Marketing a scam pyramid scheme?

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Question: Is Multi-Level Marketing a scam pyramid scheme?
Position‹2 of 2: No, multi-level marketing is not a scam pyramid scheme

The case that multi-level marketing is not a pyramid scheme, because it sells real goods to real customers and is lawful where it does so, and because disappointing earnings are common to small enterprise rather than evidence of fraud.

Supporting arguments · 2

Selling goods to customers is the feature that distinguishes the model from a pyramid scheme
Disappointing earnings are characteristic of small enterprise rather than evidence of fraud