You send book to one person. You ask many people to send you a book so you get many books. Each of those people, to get the same deal, have to then find many people each themselves to not lose anything. The reason it’s a pyramid is because the last people to ask will receive nothing, they will be the bottom of the pyramid.
It’s not “shitty math”, it’s just math. There is no guarantee that by you sending a book you will also receive a book. The wording is misleading, it is not “Maximum 36”, it’s “Maybe you get one back, but probably not”.
That’s the scam part - you encourage someone to join in on the premises that you are going to get things if they buy in, and if they do it they can too! Except more than likely they won’t be able to, and all they did was give you a free book.
Not_Alec_Baldwin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pyramid scheme, not profit scheme.
Pyramid because the shape is a pyramid.
The first person, the one who sent out the original picture, received X books and sent none.
The next layer sent one book, and possibly received up to 36.
But those 36 each need 36 new people. It’s impossible. You’d hit the population of the earth in just a few rounds.