As The Economist said, the development of direct selling in China is an inevitable trend. In fact, there is no obvious boundary between direct selling and pyramid selling. Direct selling itself belongs to pyramid selling. What about pyramid schemes? In fact, MLM itself is not wrong, and it is a good business model. In foreign countries, there is no such word as "direct selling", and it has always been called "pyramid selling". Later, this business model came to China. We China people have always been smart, so we changed our products to no products, and also formed a pyramid-shaped liar system, which made many people do illegal pyramid schemes without knowing the real pyramid schemes. So the government cracked down, because there were too many illegal pyramid schemes, the state had to unify all enterprises at 1998 and do nothing. Later, in order to distinguish between legal and illegal pyramid selling, the word "direct selling" was used instead of legal pyramid selling, and the word "illegal pyramid selling" was used instead of illegal pyramid selling.
In fact, there is nothing wrong with pyramid schemes, but people are wrong, just like guns. There is nothing wrong with themselves, right? If I use this gun to kill people in the street, whose fault is it? Is it me or the gun? It's obviously my fault. That's the truth.
The spirit of some direct selling companies is really good and worth learning. Direct selling is also a good industry, and many people are successful in this industry. But for me, I have my own ideals. Everyone has their own interests!