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What if all the businesses were MLM? What if MLM schemes were also designed to re-distribute rewards so all the wealth wouldn't concentrate in the the top memb

• tlb 7y ago
  And if my grandma had wheels, she'd be a bicycle. Actually, a Co-op seems like the answer to your second question. Profits are shared among members in proportion to their activity.
• kjs3 7y ago
  They wouldn't be MLMs in any recognizable sense?
  • qwerty456127 7y ago
    I mean what if there were no centralized retailers, everybody would be encouraged to re-sell, everybody would be rewarded for distributing to other active re-sellers, people receiving abnormally high passive income from their networks because of their high position in the distribution hierarchy would be taxed to reward active minors. At the same time businesses producing goods (rather than distributing tem) and services (incl. storage, logistics and quality control) would remain the classic way, MLM is just about the sales. Just imagine buying all your groceries and gadgets from neighbors and friends rather than from Walmart/etc. Wouldn't that be nice?
    • kjs3 7y ago
      Oh, I see what you mean. Then my answer (not facetious) would be "because that would suck". I don't want to be a micro-distributor, I don't know a lot of people outside of sale that would think that's awesome, and if there's anything MLM has proven is that buying exclusively from your friends/acquaintances/neighbors is a good way to ruin relationships. Sure...there's a more equitable scheme to equalize distribution of wealth, but please don't let this be it.