MLM

 MLM is a scam and if  you do not know what it is it's multi-level marketing also known as a pyramid scheme. Affiliate marketing is pretty much an MLM and a lot of people do not realize it.  

They always market affiliate marketing as the best thing to do and an easy way to make cash when in reality you are making the business money and promoting them for free while you are making either nothing or pennies on a dollar.

 It's like when applying to these companies, why am I needed if they are making a lot of money what can I do differently to help the company?

 If there are millions of people promoting them and you see their ads everywhere including though google AdSense how can I help them? 

That's the thing, companies pays other companies like google to promote their products and ads. They pay Facebook and other places to promote.

 So it is like they are using you because you may need the money to get you to promote for them while they sit there still making money and you end up barely making anything. 

So I do not recommend affiliate marketing if you are looking to make money. I do recommend joining Click worker, Oneforma, Prolific, Aurora studios or any of those because you do end up getting paid for tasks that you do and these companies do not scam you.