For example, if participants could actually sell products to customers outside of the scheme, these products would immediately dominate a market, due to the sheer number of participants in any market, thereby consuming any need for what’s sold—and the company would collapse. In the 2018 season of the podcast The Dream, host Jane Marie points out that lotion and soap MLM Rodan + Fields had 400,000 distributors across the country when, by her math, America has “fewer than 20,000 CVSes and Walgreens—aka lotion and soap stores—combined.”
