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This is very rampant in India as well, local facebook groups get at least 5-10 posts a day regarding pyramid schemes and offers. The response is equally high to these post averaging 50-100 comments whereas other posts barely receive any. Showing the promise land of instant riches without hard work via flashy ads and illogical math creates such greed amongst the low-income community here (which is the majority of the population, btw) that it is almost heartbreaking to see them lose their everything eventually. MLM/Pyramid scams cannot be stopped via government bans or awareness programmes as such, it needs an equal rival which not only makes the same promises but magically also fulfills them somehow. As much as I have observed, the amount of hard work they do for recruiting new members can well be exchanged for a handsome salary with a steady future income promise leading to a better financial gain over time.

It's another book by the same author - Computer Organisation and design : the hardware/software interface - http://a.co/aQYK7DG

Today's internet is more like "equal participation welcome", the decentralization being talked about in the article is at the ISPs level. Rather than having to choose from a few incompetent and monopolistic internet connectivity providers, decentralization would individuals to share wifi hotspots and create a mesh to which you can connect to. Ideally, this would allow people to get rid of blood sucking ISPs and would not be affected by the recent net neutrality disaster or any more of such but practically creating reliable high-speed user-participated decentralized ISPs haven't been possible, but might soon be.