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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Basically because they aren’t illegal, and until the end of time there are always going to be people who are either desperate or very easy to con to get involved in them.

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