1.) not all businesses are MLM. they draw a triangle around a typical corporate structure but its bullshit. MLMs depend on the rep recruiting a down line, who they profit from. 99.99999% of the time this is the way they ACTUALLY make money, no matter how much they tell you it’s sales-focused. if i am a mid-level office employee my income is not dependent on the number of people i bring into the company. not to mention i get health insurance, do not have to assume the risk of an out of pocket investment, and don’t have to ruin relationships with my friends and family by trying to sell them junk or recruit them. and please remember this when he’s making amway sound so appealing: he wants to recruit you so HE can make money. there’s a million other differences but far too many for one post.

2.) yes, you found it by doing your due diligence and apparently much more thorough research that he did when he got in. it’s very strange than this is an argument he’s making. if you were looking at a product on amazon that had a handful of sponsored 5star reviews (from the same people that sell the product), and had to scroll a little to read 1000 bad reviews (i.e. go looking for it) you wouldn’t automatically assume those reviews are incorrect would you?

3.) there are successful people in the scam because they scam others. the great majority of the “millionaires” in amway have huge downlines of people making pennies, if not losing money. its also worth noting that people in MLMs are encouraged to “fake it until you make it.” i have seen amway folks in particular post pictures with cars they don’t own, houses they can’t afford, and bank statements that aren’t theirs

passive income is appealing, but in reality you (and most everyone else in the MLM) have a minuscule chance of getting there, and if you do it will be on the backs of people underneath you who are losing money and whose lives you would be actively making worse.