While in the outhouse reading the latest issue of Forbes (free subscription from now defunct airline miles), I spotted an article highlighting the fast rising “multi-level marketing” company, MonaVie.

As a former moron who got suckered into a pyramid scheme back at the naive age of 18 (more on this in future post), my first impulse was to rip the pages apart and ignore the article, but the fear of paper cuts and lack of entertainment in the outhouse kept me reading.

I quickly realized that the authors of the Forbes article shared a similar view with me on MonaView — if it smells like a pyramid scheme, looks like a pyramid scheme, sells like pyramid scheme — it’s a freaking pyramid scheme.