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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A lot of the ones that have been around a long time actually make decent products, which is why they’re still around. People still buy the products, they just don’t necessarily try to recruit other “independent business owners.” Some of the older ones, like Amway, are *really* popular outside of the United States and Europe.

Edit: I see some people are completely incapable of being objective.

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