With dropshipping, there are a lot of "pay me $500 and I'll teach to you get rich dropshipping!" classes.
It's not quite the same as an MLM because the teacher doesn't get continuous income off the people they recruit after they finish the class, but it is like an MLM in the sense that the people recruiting people to their class are the only people making any money. And they tend to create "levels" of classes, etc to keep people paying.
You mean like those guys that purchased an online course on how to run a walled-garden online course and then are aggressively selling their own online course (on how to run a walled-garden online course) ?
It's not quite the same as an MLM because the teacher doesn't get continuous income off the people they recruit after they finish the class, but it is like an MLM in the sense that the people recruiting people to their class are the only people making any money. And they tend to create "levels" of classes, etc to keep people paying.