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April 9, 2005

"Is it a pyramid?" I HOPE SO!

Some people call network or multilevel marketing (MLM) a "pyramid", because they’re confusing it with an illegal scheme where early investors or “top” people make money paid by new investors on the bottom. Usually there’s no product or service involved and when the organization runs out of people to recruit, people at the bottom make little or no money.But the shape of a business organization’s structure has nothing to do with whether it's legal or not. A pyramid itself is the most stable shape on earth and almost all organizational structures are pyramids. From ancient Egypt to modern America the pyramid is a symbol of strength and permanence. It’s part of the Great Seal of the United States--- a symbol of unity.

Have you ever seen the pyramid on the back of a dollar bill? It’s in the middle of the left-hand side. Benjamin Franklin designed it. Above the pyramid is the all-seeing eye, which was used as a symbol of God. Franklin believed that one person alone could not succeed, but a group of people, under the watchful eye of God, could accomplish anything.