For those of you who haven’t been approached by a loose high-school acquaintance promising to make you “your own boss,” here’s a quick primer:
MLM (multi-level marketing) is a business model where distributors sell products or services and recruit others to join the company, with the incentive of receiving a percentage of their sales. While MLM is legal, it shares similarities with pyramid schemes, which are illegal. Unfortunately, some MLM distributors engage in unethical behavior to boost their sales.
The ‘Anti-MLM’ community on Reddit is on a mission to roast these schemes, one screenshot, meme, and roast at a time.