2024 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
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This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
  • Alenalda@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Both can be exploitation, as an adult you shouldn’t want your children exposed to that kind of exploitation. Just because others are exploited doesn’t make it right for you to exploit others especially if they are children. Capitalism encourages you to sell your labor so others can profit from it, and I don’t just me financially. They will try and skim from the labor of children to benefit the brand or the organization. A kid having a bake sale is a different story if done through their own labor and initiative. They can put up the investment and keep all the profits to do with as they choose instead of several organizations scraping 75% of the rewards.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      10 months ago

      The girls themselves ‘profit’ from it by funding activities. They aren’t being forced to do it either. No one in my daughter’s troop was forced to be there. No one was forced to sell cookies. No one was shamed if they didn’t sell cookies. Selling cookies is never even suggested to be required in order to be a Girl Scout.

      If you can show me evidence of a large number of Girl Scouts being forced to sell cookies against their will, go for it. But doing something of their own free will so that they can do things like take a trip to the zoo sure doesn’t sound like exploitation to me.

      Also… “several organizations” do not scrape 75% of the rewards. That is just false. 76% goes to the Girl Scouts of America and 24% goes to the cookie bakers. I assume you don’t think the cookie bakers should bake cookies for free or that the Girl Scouts shouldn’t be funding themselves, so who is scraping this 75%?

      • Alenalda@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I guess we can agree to disagree here. I’m not going to keep arguing with someone who thinks child labor is fine and dandy.