Random Rant: Pyramid Selling Schemes

I recently saw a documentary on makeup seller Mary Kay, a large American pyramid selling scheme. Frankly, it disturbed me. For those who don't know, pyramid selling schemes are companies than operate basically by recruitment. You are recruited into the company, sell stuff, and give commissions to the person who recruited you, and they give money to the person who recruited them, and so on. Eventually, you can recruit people and stop selling stuff, instead raking in the commissions from your recruitees.

This Mary Kay company just disturbed me. Here are some of the reasons why:

-The recruiters don't seem to do much work, but make as much money as your average 9-5 desk job.
-The recruitment: it just seems so insidious. Your friends become basically your slaves when you recruit them.
-The ultra-hyper-religousiness of the company itself: it can disturb atheists like me. I have many Christian friends, but these people seemed to use the Church for justifying their company. I'd like to know: if the company is so christian, why aren't they donating any profits to charities or churches? They just don't seem particularly sincere.
-The prize giving to those who sell lots of makeup: it seems like giving out trinkets and beads
-The fact that the company is meant to be a company "for women, by women", but it's president is a man. Possibly a strange thing for a guy to complain about, but it seems wrong to me.

In short, I think that pyramid selling schemes are wrong and should be abolished.