How do parents look at Girl Scouts and don’t think it’s a scam?

Just to set the stage here, my daughter is currently in Girl Scouts. We were nieve to the whole thing going into it, we just thought it would be a decent hobby to try out.

We then joined Girlscouts, we had to pay a good sum of money to purchase Girlscouts specific uniforms (big margins here for sure), then there are membership dues you have to pay in order to be part of Girlscouts in the first place

All of the above didn’t really bother me, but then we got to the cookie part.

Looking at it from a business mindset, which I do with most things often, the Girl Scouts organization is literally using child labor to sell their product… I mean I know that sounds bad, but let’s just call it like it is…

The money generated from the cookie sales doesn’t even go back to the girls in the troop who sold them, it goes to the company, meaning the girls are acting as the sales executives and literally working for free

On top of that I often think, wouldn’t it be so much better to just open a Girlscouts Amazon store and watch the orders pour in, versus standing outside some random grocery store selling 2 boxes at a time ?

I don’t know, our daughter enjoys it or whatever, but I can’t go there without thinking this whole setup is a total racket