add,
Just curious, but do you know the difference between what Bernie Madoff did and what MLM is?
You seem to be confused.
Madoff ran a Ponzi scheme. That's when they pay dividends to early investors from money by paid in by later investors. The early ones are told that their investment is paying off big money when it's actually coming from other investors. Keeping it going depends on getting more and more investors but sooner or later, the money runs out and the later investors get screwed.
MLM pays from actual sales, not from investors. If there are no sales, nobody gets paid.
