So what you're saying is that MLM works the better it resembles an actual, honest business that does not rip off its employees. At the extreme end, MLM is pret

So what you're saying is that MLM works the better it resembles an actual, honest business that does not rip off its employees. At the extreme end, MLM is pretty much exactly a pyramid scheme. Move, step by step, towards the way in which an honest business operates and eventually, it's working. Take it further to that point and eventually, it's not MLM anymore. So - why have MLM to begin with? Because there are con men and suckers. Which is why MLM is inherently bullshit.