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Originally Posted by Junkyard Donner
True that. Don't most people take unpaid internships for the job experience and not in hopes of ultimately getting the position they're interning for?
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Generally. But, for sure, nobody is interning for free just for fun. My point is that unpaid internships are not a move towards a slave society. They are investments in a future of paid professional work.
Granted, those investments may not pay off for every individual intern. The way capitalism works is that we still compete for jobs even after the unpaid internships are done. It also means that nobody has to do unpaid internships. Everybody has the option to play it safe and take lower paying work. Ultimately a paid internship is worth only as much as an unpaid one, and often it's worth even less because a paid internship is possibly just a very low paying job rather than a valuable professional experience.