>You can say that again!
>These days businesses rename things so that the customer assumes one thing but the company practises another.
>And this goes all the way from "corporate mission statements" to accepting returns to what you really get compared to what you are led to believe you will get.
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>Business has gone absolutely crazy since (western, as opposed to Chinese) communism disappeared. Businesses proclaim great care about their staffs and customers yet their actions show exactly the opposite.
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>General Motors is having serious financial problems these days, and their CEO has said that he doesn't view bankruptcy as an option for fixing a sick company. While that very admirable, he is in a small minority and the sad fact of the matter is that he too will eventually be forced to take that route.

Back to the topic of MLM: From what I have read on multi-level marketing, it seems that MLM may very well be a legitimate business, but it is quite often not more than a pyramid scheme in disguise. Somewhere I read something more or less like: A criterion for the end user is whether the main focus is on recruiting new members, or on actually selling the products. Also, what percentage of the clients are, themselves, resellers. You can't have a sustainable business if, say, more than half of the clients become "salespeople" themselves.