1. You never hear people getting bulk discounts (the bigger the bulk the lower the price), which is the best way to market and sell a product.
You also don’t see drop shipping (where factories do the work as long as a sale is created), rather, you have distributors forced to pay a fixed monthly fee whether they sell or not, putting the burden completely on the marketer, not the manufacturer or consumer, the other necessary components of a trade.
2. Marketers are encouraged to recruit their own competition
3. Marketers push people to buy what they don’t need at a price they normally don’t like, rather than let people beg for the product and compete over pricing it as low as possible
4. Despite what employers tell you, MLM does NOT give you control over your own business, you have no say over pricing (unless going up is considered a say)
5. As mentioned above, traditional production and marketing works when a good product is begged to be sold by consumers, and consumers beg to become a distributor. MLM does just the opposite or how a natural market operates.
6. MLM preys on greed, guilt, and encourages people to hunt their close associates. Traditional businesses understand worst case scenarios, market saturation, supply and demand, voluntary exchange, MLM seems to ignore reality altogether by giving false promises.
7. Does any serious business school teach MLM as a viable business model? Or is there a conspiracy in the mainstream education to stifle alternative theories of economics and those who don’t do MLM are brainwashed into believing that only traditional businesses work?
8. MLM always talks about a hidden secret breakthrough that’ll be the next best thing. Now if this was remotely true, shouldn’t rich people have joined, invested and beat the average Joe? If something is promising, why isn’t it attracting money, rather, it’s attracting ignorant suckers?