Is Tai Lopez an MLM?

[kieranperez]

MLM meaning “multilevel marketer”

Seems pretty obvious at this point. 

[d0ornokey]

@TylerJ +1

[kieranperez]

@TylerJ I don’t see at all how he’s “transitioning people to green”. 

An orange person doesn’t perform orange acts to turn people into Green people who see through his get rich quick schemes and his crazy internet marketing campaigns out of some act of higher conscious systems thinking sort of thing. Much less altruism. 

Orange people manipulate orange systems. Welcome to modern gross capitalism. 

[Ayilton]

You mean "internet manipulator" , he is like  the Trump of YouTube  ! 

[eleveneleven]

On 9/27/2018 at 3:17 PM, kieranperez said:

MLM meaning “multilevel marketer”

Seems pretty obvious at this point. 

Not all Internet marketing get-rich-quick schemes are MLM. MLM is just a subset of the get-rich-quick thing, and Tai Lopez is not necessarily this flavor of con artist. An MLM / pyramid scheme is something very specific: It basically relies on your buying into the "business scheme" and then you make most of your money by selling that same scheme to the next sucker. There is no real product. In reality, you are the customer and you are being sold to by the people at the top of the pyramid. It's inherently unsustainable.

This is different from someone just selling you a supposed formula that will make you rich, and then it doesn't make you rich. This alone is not MLM. MLM is when you make money by recruiting people "under you" in a "downline" who will work the same generic system and supposedly make you passive income while you sip booze out of a coconut on a beach somewhere. As far as I know, Tai Lopez just sells courses and shit, which is not a pyramid scheme. Whether his ideas work or not, I don't know, but that's kind of irrelevant.

Edited September 30, 2018 by eleveneleven