I mean what if there were no centralized retailers, everybody would be encouraged to re-sell, everybody would be rewarded for distributing to other active re-sellers, people receiving abnormally high passive income from their networks because of their high position in the distribution hierarchy would be taxed to reward active minors.
At the same time businesses producing goods (rather than distributing tem) and services (incl. storage, logistics and quality control) would remain the classic way, MLM is just about the sales.
Just imagine buying all your groceries and gadgets from neighbors and friends rather than from Walmart/etc. Wouldn't that be nice?
Oh, I see what you mean. Then my answer (not facetious) would be "because that would suck". I don't want to be a micro-distributor, I don't know a lot of people outside of sale that would think that's awesome, and if there's anything MLM has proven is that buying exclusively from your friends/acquaintances/neighbors is a good way to ruin relationships.
Sure...there's a more equitable scheme to equalize distribution of wealth, but please don't let this be it.