In both cases you try to sell products to other people and you get a commission for each sale, so what’s the difference?
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In a MLM the focus is often on recruiting more poor saps to work under you, contributing part of their commissions to you instead of trying to sell stuff yourself and earn that way. It is sort of the dream of a pyramid scheme being sold, even if the reality is technically just commission sales. Such schemes often require everyone involved buy a certain amount of product from the manufacturer so they always get their profit from what might otherwise be a pyramid scheme structure where no sales occur and no money changes hands (a purely dream pyramid scheme).
Affiliate marketing is just independent people with their own audiences of consumers being paid back for any sales as a result of their referral or advertisement. For example a company could find someone that a lot of people watch play video games and offer a kickback for every sale of headphones made from that person mentioning it to their audience. Nobody is being recruited in tiers like with a pyramid scheme or MLM, no product is required to be bought by the independent person, it is just normal advertising with compensation tied directly to its effectiveness.
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