Read this post by Makan Guru in the Cowboy Bar recently.

I have the primary school mate who recently was trying to get me into AmWay. I told him straight out that the only reason why AmWay is now in Sillypore is that they have maxed out in the US and are now looking for new markets. He refused to believe me, and kept asking me to go down to see him so he can tell me of their new management principles. I then again refused him nicely and told him i was not interested, but if he wanted to go out for drinks anytime just to give me a call. He mumbled something and then put the phone down.

The really sad thing is that he is so obsessed with money and getting me into the system that he has tried so hard to get my contact, but then instead of wanting to rebuild our long lost friendship he is blinded my the money.

I even met this 18 year old girl who was obsessed with this MLM program that this was the only thing she thought about. She was begging people for contacts and trying all ways and means to get herself "promoted" to the next level. It is so sad to see a girl that age be so obsessed with money that she has forgotten all the fun things in life.

In short, MLM if you go in at the beginning you can do well, but for the worker bees who come in at the bottom and later, they basically get screwed. The main thing that i really hate about MLM is how it changes people into being money obsessed and robs them of their ability to hold real relationships, because they just end up seeing every person as a potential contact or sale. Damn sad.

This is as good a argument against MLM as I can see. There is only so many people in this world. And only so many people you are in contact with. And each person can only be sold once. So the ones at the bottom of the chain got much less people to sell to. Add to the fact that a big number of people are hostile towards MLM. So the pool of people willing to join MLM dries up pretty fast.