Amway and other multi-level marketing/pyramid schemes

Did anyone have parents who were into this Amway shite or other MLM/Pyramid schemes growing up, or have family members/friends try to recruit you in? Anyone have any good stories of your parents being in it or someone trying to recruit you in?

Just read a book about how big of a scam these are. I already knew that, but I wish I knew this when I was a kid and my parents were hardcore into it.

Here is my Amway story:

My dad had a pretty good sales manager job for a major radio station clearing over $200k per year when I was in elementary school... got fired because he was too aggressive with Amway. He got another chance and got fired again for the same reason. Him bringing Amway into the office clearly angered fellow employees and his bosses. And since my parents never really made it anywher e in Amway, my family was never the same after the 2nd firing, my dad never recovered financially, my mom had to work 2 jobs, and we struggled until I graduated high school.

My parents never actually told me that my dad was fired because of Amway, but as I got older I was able to put 2 and 2 together. Finally when I got into middle school my parents stopped Amway. I still remember they would go to the conventions/rallies/retreats a lot of weekends and be out of town, as well as the numerous motivational tapes. Even though thats what got my dad into trouble, when I call Amway a pyramid scheme to this day he still gets defensive about it and says it wasn't a pyramid and was legit.

My uncle is pretty successful at Amway though, mainly because he sponsored someone who has made it big in Amway, so my uncle gets a lot of passive income from that. My uncle still is big in Amway unfortunately, still goes around selling the stuff and XS energy drinks. I saw his tax return a couple years ago and he claimed $270k.

TL,DR: frick Amway and frick the people who try to push it on others. 99.7% of people who join it make zero money or lose money.