Pyramid schemes causing social harm in China – crackdowns may not be working

Re:Pyramid schemes causing social harm in China – crackdowns... by ghostcluster on Monday February 05, 2018 @06:25AM (#16308114)

Amway is another example. It has established close ties to the US government to help ensure its survival, even though it is another parasitic multilevel marketing pyramid scam.

Like biological parasites, the long lasting ones seem to have optimized the level of damage and chaos they cause, along with maintaining protection mechanisms (lobbying, political donations, corruption) that enable them to continue to survive and be incredibly lucrative to their founders.

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Re:Pyramid schemes causing social harm in China – crackdowns... by westiseast on Monday February 05, 2018 @07:59AM (#16308470)

Amway is huge in China. Anytime I got approached in coffee shops it was 50/50 someone wanting to practice English, or an Amway rep.

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Re:Pyramid schemes causing social harm in China – crackdowns... by tialaramex on Monday February 05, 2018 @06:56AM (#16308235)

In the UK Amway's legal settlement requires them to publish the compensation tiers and how many people are in each tier. So you can see at a glance that almost everybody involved gets nothing.

It doesn't stop people joining, unfortunately. Knowing that Sue, the really successful seeming Super Global Ambassador Tier leader at the presentation on Saturday earned less than a shelf stacker does not stop some people figuring if only they join Amway they'd be doing better.

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