One of the basic mottos of business is to work smarter not harder.
You're also contradicting yourself as a sliding scale payment method for affiliates doesn't address how hard they work, only the shear volume of sales, so someone working smarter can easily make more money then someone working harder. Also, as a sponsor, if you did all the work affiliates did, you would make 100% on a sale instead of 50%, but you work smarter by having others bring traffic to you and giving them 50% of the sale :moneybags:
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