The issue is that they aren't actually selling magazines. They are selling their story, and how they are trying to rise above poverty. But of course they aren't

The issue is that they aren't actually selling magazines. They are selling their story, and how they are trying to rise above poverty. But of course they aren't the ones profiting from their poverty and despair. An entire industry based on boxing up impoverished young people, shipping them around the country, and selling their story for a profit.