If you work in the marketplace, you should be paid at least minimum wage.
If unpaid internships did not exist, young people would still get experience but with compensation.
Unpaid interns take jobs that older people, those who have lost other jobs or who are returning to the workforce, could compete for in a fair marketplace for labor if only the jobs paid. Many older workers, people in their 50s and older even, could do some of the jobs that young people are now doing for free.
When older people tell you about how they worked their way through college and you feel frustrated because that is impossible today, well some of the blame for the lack of work-your-way-through-college jobs is to be placed on these internships.
And who pays the medical bills if an intern is injured on the job? Can happen, you know.
Internships -- unpaid labor -- are an abomination. They should not be allowed.
When you work for someone, even your family, you should be paid a wage.
Your work, your labor, deserves to be treated with that much dignity. It is especially disgusting when kids do internships with wealthy corporations and think tanks, etc. They are being taken advantage of whether they are poor or rich.
And, as Wiley point out, poor kids cannot afford to take internships. So, yet again, the children of the wealthy get a little push up the ladder.
Let's even the playing field at least when it comes to opportunities to develop skills and work.
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