## The Math of the Pyramid
Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) schemes (Herbalife, LuLaRoe, Amway) are simply illegal Pyramid Schemes wrapped in the legal loophole of selling a sub-par product. The companies do not care if the product sells to the public; their entire business model is forcing their own "employees" to buy the inventory.
### FAQ
**Q: How is it mathematically impossible to make money in an MLM?**
A: Exponential Saturation. The recruiter tells you that you only need to recruit 5 friends under you to be "financially free." They tell your 5 friends they each must recruit 5 friends (25 people). To sustain the pyramid, those 25 need 125. Then 625. Then 3,125. The math breaks reality immediately: By simply reaching Level 14, the pyramid requires 6.1 Billion people to join—nearly the entire population of Planet Earth. Therefore, the system is mathematically guaranteed to collapse in a few weeks. The bottom 99% of the pyramid will run out of humans to recruit. Because they were legally mandated to buy a $250 "Starter Kit" of essential oils or leggings to join, the multi-millionaire founders at the top extract all of their wealth entirely from the initial buy-in cost of the millions of people trapped at the bottom.