Aren “real world” organization charts shaped like a pyramid?
Yes, and so is this child’s toy on the floor here. I hope that you’re not suggesting that all things with any semblance of similarity are the same? With pyramid schemes shape is not the problem, as some MLM simpletons have disingenuously retreated to. The problem is not in triangles, but in modus operandi, and this is analogously referred to by the term “pyramid”. But the shape is not the problem, but rather that in pyramid schemes the organization is set up to expand exponentially with no way to stop or control growth, as in a legitimate business. “Pyramid schemes” are thus frauds.