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ilovethissong17 karma

Cookie sales are 100% optional and lots of girls sell none or just to family members. But it's a fundraiser, a percentage of the profits go to your troop, a percentage goes to the girl in the form of "cookie dough" money she can spend at the Girl Scout store, or towards summer camps and as you get older your cookie sales can be used to earn a college scholarship through Girl Scouts, most of the young girls just want the catalog prizes you can earn like with every fundraiser ever

ilovethissong2 karma

I always thought the cookie dollars were stupid but that is probably how they avoid any child labor complaints, if they started straight up paying the girls to sell cookies i could see how it might seem ethically concerning, by awarding them prizes essentially it's still just a fundraiser instead of child labor. I always used my cookie money towards summer camp though. Our troop sold a lot of cookies and we were able to use that money to go on tons of cool trips and do all sorts of fun stuff