Change my mind: Life is a pyramid scheme

Before deciding if life is a pyramid scheme, we first need to define what a pyramid scheme is. 

A pyramid scheme is defined as  "a fraudulent system of making money based on recruiting an ever-increasing number of "investors." The initial promoters recruit investors, who in turn recruit more investors, and so on."

Now we need to compare the characteristics of the job mentioned above, an "average everyday job" like a cashier or servicer at Walmart could serve as a basis for the purposes of this example. 

Now the following is true about this job: 

• The roles and responsibilities of the jobs are defined on the performance of the employee and are not contingent on the employee's ability to recruit other employees
• Their own salary is paid sequentially such that the employee's performance is maintained
• Investing any excessive capital from a job into an investment in itself may be what you referenced as "leveraging and management of money distribution" 

Since any common job and the extrinsic reward from said job is not dependent on your ability to recruit into the organization (or pay an entrance fee), jobs received in Life cannot be equated to a pyramid scheme.