{"id":16911,"date":"2016-01-15T16:07:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T22:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=16911"},"modified":"2016-01-15T16:07:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T22:07:01","slug":"mlm-is-not-a-business-its-a-pyramid-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/mlm-is-not-a-business-its-a-pyramid-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"MLM is Not a Business (It&#8217;s a Pyramid Scheme)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written many times about how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/2015\/03\/multi-level-marketing-is-not-a-business-its-a-pyramid-scheme\/\">multi-level marketing (MLM) is not a business<\/a>. Don&#8217;t believe me? Others have said the same thing. Today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lazymanandmoney.com\/why-mlm-is-not-a-business\/\">Lazy Man and Money lays out the reasons why MLM is not a business<\/a>. You&#8217;ll have to read the details at his site, but the reasons include:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Businesses obey the Commandment of Control<\/li>\n<li>Business 101 Excludes MLM<\/li>\n<li>Businesses obey the Commandment of Entry<\/li>\n<li>MLM Doesn&#8217;t Obey the Laws of Supply and Demand<\/li>\n<li>More than 99% of people LOSE money<\/li>\n<li>MLM is Not like Any Other Small Business<\/li>\n<li>It Doesn&#8217;t Matter How Hard You Work<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The bottom line that <strong>any<\/strong> job is better than MLM. In MLM, you&#8217;re almost guaranteed to <strong>lose<\/strong> money. With a job, even one paying only minimum wage, you&#8217;re still <strong>making<\/strong> money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written many times about how multi-level marketing (MLM) is not a business. Don&#8217;t believe me? Others have said the same thing. Today Lazy Man and Money lays out the reasons why MLM is not a business. You&#8217;ll have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[824,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-protection","category-pyramid-schemes-mlm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-4oL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}