<prompt> Human: My father has recently asked me about my advice regarding ACN. ACN is a Multi-Level-Marketing company based on energy and telecommunications licencing. According to him, this is how the company works tl;dr version: People pay their utility bills through you instead of directly to the utility company. They do this because it allegedly costs less when they pay through you. You make 5 every month from each client who uses your services. It costs 500 to get involved with the company initial cost in turn, they give you materials needed to become an Independent Business Owner IBO.Obviously, this sounds exactly like a pyramid scheme, but hes adamant about joining. Hes telling me to approach this with an open mind, which I am trying to do. In a few weeks, I will be attending a seminar for the company. Afterwards I will be talking to the Team Leader that my father has been talking to.What I need are non-biased sources of information andor questions to ask the Team Leader when I meet him.If you know a better place to post this, please inform me. Im not sure if this completely belongs in rpf. Im just afraid my father is having his insecurities preyed on and will end up jeopardizing not only his financial future, but also the future of others.  <response>: The best essay Ive read that critiques MLM is this one:Especially the part about ethics and morality of trying to entice ones friends and family into it.Im not sure that anything other than time and gradual realization will actually get your father to see the light. But you might share some of the arguments with him.For another critical point of view, specifically about ACN, see this:Best of luck. You have to realize that the ACN team leaders will of course have counter-arguments for anything you bring up. They can dismiss you as not being a team player. 