The modern world is filled with confusing new acronyms, and it seems like more crop up every day. The most insidious example is “MLM”, an amorphous concept that no person seems to truly understand and which appears to shift meaning with no regard to context.
I speak, of course, of the following three phrases: multi-level-marketing, man-loving-man, and Marxist-Leninist-Maoist. No user of the acronym MLM can truly know which of these concepts they are referring to, resulting in probably the most deep-reaching misunderstanding of the English language ever recorded in our history.
Now, dear reader, let me enlighten you. After much in-depth linguistic research, I have determined that the MLM is, in fact, but a single concept. Confused? So was I. Allow me to explain.
The MLM is a revolutionary tactic to overthrow the capitalist ruling class through a novel technique where the proletariat engages in small entrepreneurial schemes. This is the new way to consolidate class awareness and shift power to the working class. Each MLM member must induct a set of other similarly minded people to their ideology by selling them an overpriced starter kit of leggings, makeup, Tupperware, or whatever else, giving them the capital to go forth and recruit others until all the oppressed classes are going around and selling a bunch of useless stuff. Oh and also I forgot to mention by “induct” I mean you have to also have a lot of gay sex or none of it works and the revolution will never happen.
