The MLM Economy and a "Non Business"

I saw a craigslist ad for a fast food franchise business in my hometown. I briefly pondered "buying" the place. It's listed at only $85,000 but based on the ad, you do not get much for that. Maybe the equipment in the leased building? The details in the ad were sparse.

You'd still have to pay a lease, franchise fees, buy slop food to resell, etc... to start to get some paltry monthly positive cash flow. I think it's a pretty good illustration of what so many "businesses" actually are in the United States. You're not an "owner" when you sign up for such a deal. The concept of "ownership" is all but gone in the US in general. Many things, like real estate, personal property like cars, and in some states business inventory, are collateral for a debt deal somebody else made and there are people with guns who will seize "your" property to make good on the debt if you "chose" not to pay your part of that burden. It's been like this since the US was founded and of course long before.

Were you to sign up for that franchise sandwich shop you're just a participant in a vast MLM scam called the US economy. I doubt anyone would take $85K out of their savings to buy a business like that, they'd use a line of credit from their own existing business or originate some loan to buy it. The same thing happens with larger businesses. When one corporation buys another one, some version of that happens.

At best you're a manager and just like the people up the pyramid, you skim the difference between the cost of the funny money debt to operate the business, and the funny money you manage to take from the public who are all doing the same thing. The money you skim from the MLM system into your personal accounts, your savings, is just collateral for the bank to make more debt.

That business exists almost entirely within the MLM economy system where nothing is really owned and all real things are just collateral for more debt agreements. This is the core problem with the MLM system: the overhead and parasitic costs of all the people skimming their MLM "lines" are enormous. "Owning" the sandwich shop isn't worth the trouble. Working for the proverbial sandwich shop is even less worth the trouble.

People were trained/brainwashed to accept this system as normal and desirable, but reality is starting to seep through the cracks in the brainwashing. For example, the student loan situation in the US is absurd and is disincentive for participating in the MLM. Inflation has a similar effect, if you're getting an annual loss of purchasing power of like 15% or more, there's no point in working harder. You'd have to be a retard to do it. The rational decision is to bail from the system. That causes an even faster decline in purchasing power.

This is why the US government smash and grabbed Venezuela's oil. It put it into the empire MLM pyramid. The overhead cost of the empire MLM system is mind boggling, though, so the net gain the average American will see is minute if anything, but it will probably keep the scheme going a while longer.

An individual can pull quite a bit of stuff out of the empire's MLM system for now. You probably won't ever get your real estate out of the system, but every one of your MLM dollars that you convert into gold or another hard asset is potentially a new system basis, meaning, it's stuff that's not part of the MLM system and isn't collateral for more debt.

It would be a boon to organize people outside the MLM scheme to do productive tasks and create wealth without a million scammers in the pyramid claiming their part.