
Originally Posted by
silversurfer
I challenge anyone to show me a successful business model that does not take the organizational form of a pyramid. The organization is not the issue, but, like so many things in life, people get fixated on the wrong thing, in this case the organization.
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you do understand, right, that you misunderstand why pyramid schemes are called pyramid schemes, it's not the organizational structure, like businesses, it's the concept of paying to be part of the plan up to one person. Pyramid-shaped organizations are not the issue, duh!
But if you owned a company and hired everyone who paid you an entry fee and then never paid them a salary, no matter what you called it, no matter what the company did, they'd be called a scam.
But seriously, you don't understand pyramid schemes, so just leave that part alone.