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You seem to be confused who is being protected here. It's the people who do not and, most importantly, cannot accept the unpaid internship, because they cannot
by anyfoo 8y ago
You seem to be confused who is being protected here. It's the people who do not and, most importantly, cannot accept the unpaid internship, because they cannot afford it. They are to be protected, not the affluent person that is totally cool with taking that internship slot because they have a steady source of income anyway.
In the car analogy above, they are the ones that have a large chance to get hurt by your driving.
- stale2002 8y agoAnd what I am saying is that I know multiple people, who were definitely not affluent, who fought hard to be able to break into the industry, and would be extremely insulted and upset that there are people out there who would have tried to tear these opportunities away from them, and probably permanently prevent them from breaking into the industry. Just be careful who's opportunities and jobs you try to take away from people. That might have been their only shot.
- anyfoo 8y agoThat's under the assumption that the companies would not have offered a paid internship instead. And as said before, I don't believe that there a many legitimate reasons where a company that is able to offer proper internships is not able or unwilling to afford a meager internship salary if not for questionable motives. (Also, what are you trying to do with the overly emotional aspect of bringing up your friends here? How is that supposed to work, should I bring up a tearjerking story of people who are "extremely insulted and upset that they were not able to afford an internship because affluent people would intern for free"? And then repeat your last paragraph, verbatim?)