I spent a couple years of my errant youth in the entertainment industry, where unpaid internships are the standard way to enter the business. But those jobs are

I spent a couple years of my errant youth in the entertainment industry, where unpaid internships are the standard way to enter the business. But those jobs aren't worth anything like a minimum wage to the employers, so if they weren't unpaid, the jobs simply wouldn't exist. For people looking to get a job in the industry after graduation, their best shot is to get an internship in college, do a great job and meet lots of people, and parlay that into an offer. Those "vulnerable" young people should be the first to object to a crackdown on unpaid internships.