I’m going on a tangent to the topic of the article: MLM companies are getting wise about this though. If you search YouTube for some MLM companies you’ll find

I’m going on a tangent to the topic of the article: MLM companies are getting wise about this though. If you search YouTube for some MLM companies you’ll find many of them presented as an independent opinion/study on whether a specific company is a scam or not. They’ll point out surface-level flaws in a company’s business in the beginning that would suggest a pyramid scheme. They know they can’t hide certain dirty laundry so they put it out there. But then they start talking about other studies, without citing references of course, showing these companies are not a scam. It goes on from there and sadly a lot of people still fall for these when they’re trying research these companies.