In fairness to Amway, they DO sell products and have successfully marketed their products this way for many years. I, personally, however, believe they are little different than the current crop of con artists. I asked my friend, therefore, if wasn't he a little troubled by the pyramid scam nature of his employer. However, I will discuss the religious nature of left wing philosophy at another time. Today, I wish to focus on a piece of wisdom about which old Karl was dead right.
Capitalism IS a pyramid scam.
Oh, he wouldn't have put it quite that way. Instead, he recognized a simple but inherent flaw in the capitalist scheme of things. This does indeed happen, all the time. But, that is not the most serious problem. You see, capitalist theoreticians long ago noted that a way out of this dilemma was to increase the total market faster than the increases in production.