If you’re not truly accomplishing anything, you should get paid because?? What they don’t teach in school, is how companies function. There’s a curve...
They are accomplishing stuff. Stuff that the company would pay someone to do if it wasn't for the availability of free interns.
Exactly. And what’s more either the labor market is an efficient market or it isn’t. If it is efficient than the workers are getting paid what the market values their services at, or else they would go to some other, higher bidder.