> A pyramid scheme means that you use money from new investors to pay previous investors. That's a Ponzi scheme. A pyramid scheme is when you have to pay to y

> A pyramid scheme means that you use money from new investors to pay previous investors. That's a Ponzi scheme. A pyramid scheme is when you have to pay to your superiors and recruit subordinates, in a way that the main way of recouping your investment is by bringing more subordinates, so that it's only profitable to those in the first few levels of the pyramid.