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> many of them require that you buy a huge chunk of inventory up front whether or not you sell it, which is one of many abusive tactics of current American MLMs

Purchasing unrefundable stock is not inventory loading. It does not “resemble an MLM” in a meaningful way - you might as well say that any company that offers a recruiting bonus to employees resembles an MLM.

If you want to talk about predatory business practices, there’s plenty of it around in the franchise model. When you keep saying “like an MLM” you sound like you think these attributes are specific to MLMs.