eli5 How do multi-million dollar pyramid schemes stay around for so long?

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The company’s that everyone knows are MLM trash (HerbaLife, JuicePlus, ect). When I was looking for a job I naively joined a seminar discussing CutCo Knives. Come to find out these dud muffin companies have been around since my mom was growing up, and are somehow still operational? Wouldn’t the BBB or whatever business bureau operates in the US (FTC?) have these scams shut down by now? I understand that new ones are popping up all the time but im referring to the ones that have been around forever now.

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Some are good products and very well known. Like Tupperware, pampered chef, or Mary Kay. They are ones that really stand through the test of time and are even sold elsewhere too.

But in the end, they are the same mlm as other things. So really in the end, people just still pay for and like the product no matter how scam it seems.

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